Famous Irish Quotes & Sayings - 6

"Being Born in a Stable does not make you a Horse"
-Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, referring to his Irish birth. Wellington's comment, with its allusions to Christ's birth in a stable, obviously portray's his resentment that he was born in a country inhabited by a people that his imperialist aristocratic pedigree felt was an inferior breed

Famous Irish Quotations & Sayings- Part 5

"May You be in Heaven One Hour before the Devil Knows You're Dead!" -Traditional Irish drinking toast

Famous Irish Quotations & Sayings- Part 3

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."
-Oscar Wilde

Famous Irish Quotations & Sayings - Part 2

"May the roof above us never fall in, and may the friends gathered below it never fall out"
-Traditional Irish Toast, anon

Famous Irish Quotations & Sayings - Part 1

"A Tavern is a place where they sell madness by the bottle"
- Jonathan Swift, author of 'Gullivers Travels'.