May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows that you are dead.

"May love & laughter light your days and warm your heart & home. May good & faithful friends be yours, Wherever you may roam. May peace & plenty bless your world with joy that long endures. May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you & your's.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know
when you have gone too far

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.

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

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