Quotes About Irishman

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Despair young and never look back," an Irishman said. And this is what I did.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them. They are sound sleepers, I assure you. And every few years a new lot is laid down and run over; so that, if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption.

Nevertheless, to question authority is not, in principle, to attack it, although authority always assumes that this is the case since authority must repeatedly establish its right to rule; and if this is done by force, then it turns out that it was a tyranny all along. Good heavens, I can't believe I am preaching this to an audience of Irishmen! Just think about it: a quarter of an hour of rational thinking and an Englishman turns into an Irishman.

I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.

It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.

The Irishman had a tendency to let long-standing guilt dry out into annoyance.

How white is an Irishman's ass? Eve wondered out loud. You should know, darling.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

The Irishman shambles up to him and asks if there's any casual job going. "You don't look to me," says the supervisor, "as if you know the difference between a girder and a joist." "I do, too," says the Irishman indignantly. "The first of them wrote Faust and the second one wrote Ulysses.

Some one says it is a lie. Well, I am reminded by that of the remark of the witty Irishman who said, "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, claimed he slaughtered eighty Spaniards with his axe.

During the dinner Bill said something to Jimmy I'll never forget. He said, "I've never seen a man walk straight through a crowd of people like the Irishman does and never touch a single person. Everybody automatically parts out of the way. It's like Moses parting the Red Sea." Jimmy

As he sat before the elderly Irishman in his boxcar, the moment of realization suddenly tumbled into Elefante's consciousness with startling efficiency, landing on his insides with a heaviness that felt like a blacksmith's hammer falling on an anvil.

Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither and will lose both'?" "What's that other quote about a well-balanced Irishman?" Emily said, hopping from the van. "'They have a chip on both shoulders'?

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.

Fionn went [...] to carve a name for himself that will live while Time has an ear and knows an Irishman

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.