Irish Hospitality Sayings

#1. Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

Maria Edgeworth

#2. Skyler Luiken."
"Luke Skywalker?"
"That never grows old," Skyler growled.

Jason M. Hough

#3. When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

Horace Mann

#4. Sometime in the near future, I pray that my faith can surpass the physical reality that appears in front of me and beyond me.

Patricia Graham

#5. The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

James Anthony Froude

#6. You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Lorrie Moore

#7. Beethoven was ugly too, and no woman ever loved him, and he was Beethoven! He didn't need to be loved in order to do what he did. He just needed to love and he did.

Jose Saramago

#8. But there's a downside of being pretty, too. People can easily spot you, that is.

Mika Yamamori

#9. Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.

Billy Graham

#10. Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

Helen Fisher

#11. I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation.

Tony Hawks

#12. Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

Marianne Williamson

#13. We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

Gordon Korman

#15. The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.

Seanan McGuire

#17. They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Tom DeLonge