Top 25 Irish Fighting Sayings
#1. Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.
Winsor McCay
#2. I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us
Francis Hughes
#3. Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!
Everlast
#4. I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
Pierce Brosnan
#5. I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
Vernon L. Smith
#6. An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
Charles Caleb Colton
#7. Family. I thought of Dar and Leethu, of all the demons I had a strange affection for. I thought of Wyatt, of Amber and Nyalla, of Michelle and Candy. And I thought of that darned angel. They were all my family; mine.
Debra Dunbar
#8. Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker.
Rashers Tierney
#9. I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.
Travis Nichols
#10. In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
Napoleon III
#11. Do I want to be right or be happy?
Wayne Dyer
#12. To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ...
Alexandra Ripley
#13. Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
James Connolly
#14. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?
Martin Sheen
#15. I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.
Benny Goodman
#16. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and
preserve it.
Edward Abbey
#17. The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting
Mark Twain
#18. What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.
Frederick Lenz
#19. had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#20. I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time
James Connolly
#21. The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
Mary Deasy
#22. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#23. People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
Nigel Barker
#24. I write to cover a frame of ideas.
H.G.Wells
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