Irish Gaelic Sayings

#1. When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

Rosemary Mahoney

#2. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?

Alexandra Ripley

#3. Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Walter Raleigh

#4. Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.

Victor Gischler

#5. My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

Shane Filan

#6. I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

Muhammad Ali

#8. Scaoileadh Me ...
'Release me.' That was what he said. No doubt about it. It was in Gaelic, but that was what the voice said.
Holy. Crap.

Sara Humphreys

#9. There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

Chuck Thompson

#10. Because they were, like me, Irish Catholic, their nuptials were distinguished by mediocre food, free-flowing liquor, pre-Riverdance-style step dancing, and their own peculiar strains of Gaelic piety.

Maureen Corrigan

#11. In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk ... You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic, as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

J.R. Moehringer

#12. Faith is as powerful a force as science
but far more dangerous

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

John McGahern

#14. Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?

Mariko Tamaki

#15. He felt no longer either desire or need for sleep but rather watchfulness. He knew that all the hazards and perils were drawing togetherto a point. The next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster.

J.R.R. Tolkien