Irish Wisdom Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

Marjorie M. Liu

#3. The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap of faith, we can see ourselves "in our element," immersed in the river of life. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#4. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

#5. But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!

Homer

#6. Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Matthew Bourne

#7. The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#8. Wow people changed. I can't believe I liked them!

Justin R. Durban

#9. The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

David Rudisha

#10. The figure had emerged from a lightless region where everything we have been taught, all the conventional feelings, do not apply.

William S. Burroughs

#11. Sarah and William's unhappiness, their quarrelling, had probably attracted the mongol child - yes, yes, of course she knew one shouldn't call them mongol.

Doris Lessing

#12. I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

Jeff Bridges

#13. New York vintage is too expensive!

Kirsten Dunst

#14. The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. Reality is never a golden age.

Joan Robinson

#16. Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.

Sara Quin

#17. The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.

Alex Johnston

#18. Time passes, but memories linger.

Eddie Stack

#19. Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Robert McKee

#20. The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.

Gena Showalter