Cheeky Irish Quotes & Sayings

Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ... It really depends on your perspective. — China Mieville

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. — Pema Chodron

When a man comes near to the realization that he will be making an end, fear and care enter him for things to which he gave no thought before. The tales17 told about what is in Hades - that the one who has done unjust deeds18 here must pay the penalty there - at which he laughed up to then, now make his soul twist and turn because he fears they might be true. — Plato

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy

Oh I know what they say about us in town, and I say, the hell with them! I tell you, I don't give a damn. I have got to be an old woman in the twinkling of an eye, and it is sort of a relief, I can tell you. I do what I want to now. Last week I traded all our eggs for ice cream at Holden's Grocery. Now that I have shrunk down little as a child, I figure I might as well act like one. I don't care. I like ice cream. Juney does too. We like to put bourbon in it, and make ourselves a milkshake. — Lee Smith

The words you speak reveal the heart you have. — Todd Stocker

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. — Oliver Goldsmith

May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon. — Amy E. Tobin

A full night's sleep without money worries was a luxury. They were afraid to answer the door to strangers as they often could not pay the rent and had no TV license. They lived in fear of been brought to court for bad debts. They became master liars and a sarcastic tongue and cheeky nature were vital survival skills people learned in Wasteside. They pretended to officials at front doors they were child minders and they refused to accept or sign anything official or registered in case it was a summons — Annette J. Dunlea

Sometimes, things can happen in life that you didn't plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan. — Colleen Hoover

She'd given it two good years. The problem was, Don had only given it one. — Cindy Gerard

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings. — Dean Jackson

You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. — Neil Gaiman