“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
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“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”
“Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!”
“May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.”
“Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.”
Source: Watchwords
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw
“In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.”
“You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.”
“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”
“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.”
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?”
“Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.”
“Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.”
“Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges”
“In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.”
Source: John Bull's Other Island
“Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.”
“The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.”