He’d drink Lough Erin and the Grand Canal — Irish Proverbs
Broken Irish is better than clever English — Irish Proverbs
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. — Tug McGraw
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed Mcmahon
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! — Lord Byron
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie
Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one. — Charles Bukowski
Some drink to forget, some drink to remember-me, I drink to get bagged. — Sayings
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. — Mark Twain
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde
Here’s to drinking and swallowing, for the world is going to end. — Spanish Proverbs
I drink to forget I drink. — Joe E. Lewis
Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth — Mick Jagger
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. — Seamus Heaney
If you’re enough lucky to be Irish… You’re lucky enough! — Irish Proverbs
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. — Chris Laidlaw
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor
I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway
Irish Drinking Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Irish Quotes
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom. — James Connolly
You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed. — Patrick Pearse
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. — James Connolly
Trust me, You can dance.
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. — Patrick Pearse
Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us. — Patrick Pearse
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots of friends
You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston. — Whitney M. Young
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. — James Connolly
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. — Gregory Peck
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats
Funny Drinking Quotes
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! — Martin Luther
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. — Lewis Grizzard
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. — Al Capone
Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — Anton Chekhov
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein
Irishmen Quotes
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. — William Butler Yeats
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. — James Joyce
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands
I drink to make other people more interesting
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish. — Thomas Cahill
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language. — Daniel O'Connell
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. — Eamon de Valera
In wine, there's truth.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. — Richard Harris
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly
Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that. — Paul Ryan
Irish Music Quotes
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. — Van Morrison
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. — Dido Armstrong
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art. — James Horner
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent? — Michael Flatley
I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs. — Shane MacGowan
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures. — Tom Waits
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know? — Shane MacGowan
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance. — Brendan Gleeson
My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music. — Enya
Irish Women Quotes
I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking. — James Cagney
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. — James Larkin
Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick
My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people. — Angela Lansbury
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish! — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
It is a time when Irish women can link - as they are linking - through networks. They can do this through having an outward-looking attitude to what's happening to women in other countries, and by being affected by a broader debate. — Mary Robinson
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors. — Malachy McCourt
I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality. — Fionnula Flanagan
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans. — James Connolly
Shots Drinking Quotes
I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people. — Anthony Bourdain
I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved. — George Gobel
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. — George Bernard Shaw
Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine
You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee. — Rob Thurman
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars. — Winston Churchill
I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price. — Steve Martin
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table. — Anthony Bourdain
I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can. — Erykah Badu
I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?! — Doug Stanhope
Shots came, I don't know where they was sent from. Probably some bad hoes I'm bouta take the hint from — Drake
Irishness Quotes
In fact, very few people realize it, but in the late 1700s, there were more quote unquote slaves who were White - most of them, frankly, were Irish as you pointed out - indentured servants, than there were slaves who were African. — Douglas Macgregor
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. — Paul Theroux
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! — Audrey Hepburn
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. — Bobby Sands
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. — Edmund Barton
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you — Drake
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
You know a lot of people smoke crack on St. Patrick's Day. And it has nothing to do with being Irish or anything or nothing about luck. — Theo Von
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. — Irish Proverbs
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud
Strong Drink Quotes
I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. — W. C. Fields
To the casual observer, everything seemed fine. But I was in my own private hell. Man, did I want to drink that night. Just one strong drink to numb this misery. But I knew I could never have just one drink. — Rich Roll
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. — Ambrose Bierce
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. — Robert A. Heinlein
Black coffee must be strong and very hot; if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all. — Andre Simon
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. — Martin Luther
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast. — Winston Churchill
When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. — Moses
People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social. — Nolan Bushnell
Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong. — Drake
Good Drinking Quotes
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart
Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. — Jim Morrison
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. — Frank Sinatra
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially. — Denzel Washington
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. — Denzel Washington
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent. — Sinead O'Connor
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. — James Franco
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. — Robin Williams
I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off. — Scott Adkins
Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up. — Jodie Foster
I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source. — Mark Knopfler
Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it. — Eve Hewson
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though. — Chris Lilley
In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here. — Frank Yankovic
Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet! — Groucho Marx
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. — Brendan Behan
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me? — J. P. Donleavy
It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. — P. J. O'Rourke
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN. — Flann O'Brien
New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way. — Shirley Maclaine
I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on. — Adrian Rogers
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. — P.B. Kerr
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer. — Frank Zappa
Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday. — Oscar Wilde
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover. — Noel Gallagher
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people. — Tina Fey
Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death. — Dario Fo
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. — Sinclair Lewis
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials. — Barry McCaffrey
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish pub. — Anthony Bourdain
The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. — Proverbs
You've got to use alcohol and not let it use you. I come from a country that's been doomed by alcohol. The Irish could drink; they could drink Europe. And they'd have a good go at America, too. I mean, you guys - your alcohol is like not good, it's weak. — Gavin Friday
I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots. — Dov Davidoff
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. — Maria Edgeworth
Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey? — Maria Edgeworth
Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water. — Eoin Colfer
The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food. — Desi Arnaz
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land. — John Lennon
The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful. — Matthew Polly
They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'. — P. J. O'Rourke
My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside. — Margaret Smith
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough. — Brendan Behan
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