An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

St. Patrick: one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
_Charles M. Madigan

In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God.
_Stephen Braveheart

The reason the Irish are always fighting each other is they have no other worthy opponents.

Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
_Shane Leslie

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.
_Jon Anderson

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
_George Bernard Shaw