Famous Irishman Quotes

#1. As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

Duke Of Wellington

#2. Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

Snoop Dogg

#3. I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

Richard Branson

#4. I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

Amit Kalantri

#5. Language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Ruth Ozeki

#6. It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Wallace Shawn

#7. If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.

Walter A. Henrichsen

#8. I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Bess Myerson

#9. Does a pistol murder a man? Or is it the man who pulls the trigger? Can we blame a rabid dog who tears apart a child? Or should we blame the one who kicked and starved and tortured it?

Bec McMaster

#10. I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

Lenny Abrahamson

#11. Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

Walter J. Phillips