Famous quotes about the Irish

[Niall Quinn]

TEENAGE MUTANT BINGE AT THURLES
Feile '92

That's a super headline, and I was a part of that drunken Semple Stadium desecration!

[pintsofguinness]

From the Departed:

Twenty years after an Irishman couldn't get a f**king job, we had the presidency.

[Pangurban]

Ireland is not a small country, it is a large country in miniature.....Paul Pot Cherokee Chief

[leenie]

irish constitution.............

(2.1) In particular, the State recognizes that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
(2.2) The State shall, therefore, endeavor to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labor to the neglect of their duties in the home.



even thou this has been revised..... still says a womans place is in the home!

[muppet]

irish constitution.............

(2.1) In particular, the State recognizes that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
(2.2) The State shall, therefore, endeavor to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labor to the neglect of their duties in the home.



even thou this has been revised..... still says a womans place is in the home!

When that was written there was no word in Irish for kitchen.

[Lar Naparka]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Oscar Wilde so far.
Here are a few of his better known observations:

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.