If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

Beware of people who dislike cats

The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, They're a people of great worth, They keep company with the angels, And bring a bit of heaven here to earth

I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.