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Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover? 

You don't want to press your luck. 
--Daryl Stout 

May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, 
and may trouble avoid you wherever you go. 
--Irish Blessing 

As you slide down the banister of life, 
may the splinters never point in the wrong direction! 
--Irish Blessing 

You never miss the water till the well has run dry. 
--Irish Proverb 

Half a loaf of bread is better than no bread at all. 
--Irish Proverb 

Remember even if you loose all, keep your good name; 
for if you loose that you are worthless. 
--Irish Proverb 

Saint Patrick was a gentleman...Who through strategy and stealth...
Drove all the snakes from Ireland...Here's a drinkee to his health! 
But not too many drinkees...Lest we lose ourselves and then...
Forget the good Saint Patrick...And see them snakes again! 
--Unknown 

GOD KEEP MY JEWEL THIS DAY FROM DANGER
From tinker and pooka and black-hearted stranger
From harm of the water and hurt of the fire
From the horns of the cows going home to the byre
From teasing the ass when he's tied to the manger
From stones that would bruise and from thorns of the briar
From evil red berries that waken desire
From hunting the gander and vexing the goat
From depths o' seawater by Danny's old boat
From cut and from tumble --- from sickness and weeping
MAY GOD have my jewel this day in his keeping.


THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY by W.B. Yeats

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,
Folk dance like a wave of the sea;
My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,
My brother in Moharubuiee. 

I passed my brother and cousin,
They read in their books of prayer;
I read in my book of songs
I bought at the Sligo fair. 

When we come at the end of time,
To Peter sitting in state,
He will smile on the three old spirits,
But call me first through the gate. 

For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance; 

And when the folk there spy me,
They will all come up to me,
With "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!"
And dance like a wave of the sea." 

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto 
one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth. 
--Irish Saying 

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to 
find another Irishman to make a speech to. 
--Shane Leslie 

May the road rise to meet you, 
May the wind be always at your back, 
May the sun shine warm upon your face, 
The rains fall soft upon your fields and, 
Until we meet again 
--An Irish Blessing 

May you have warm words on a cold evening, 
a full moon on a dark night, a
nd the road downhill all the way to your door. 
--An Irish blessing 

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book 
--Irish proverb 

In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God. 
--Stephen Braveheart 

The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens. 
--Irish proverb 

When I realized what I had turned out to be was a lousy, 
two-bit pool hustler and a drunk, 
I wasn't depressed at all. I was glad to have a profession. 
--Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player 

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy 
--Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player