When the roaring flames of your love
have burned down to embers,
may you find that you’ve married your best friend.

To Age! To Age! Why does one care?
As the wrinkles grow longer and gray graces your hair.
Life should be simple because when push comes to shove,
The only one counting is the good Lord above!

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all that we will know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you and I sigh.
William Butler Yeats

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk they’re sober.
William Butler Yeats

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler Yeats

On she went, and her maiden smile
In safety lighted her round the Green Isle;
And blest forever was she who relied
Upon Erin’s honor and Erin’s pride.
Thomas Moore

The curse of the Irish is not that they don’t know the words to a song — it’s that they know them all.
Susan Dooley

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy

This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Sigmund Freud

The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are FAIR PEOPLE; they never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson