Wit & Wisdom
At Taste Ireland and in life we believe you are your word.  The Irish have a fantastic and unique way of expressing themselves through the spoken word - please enjoy the colourful and thought provoking words below.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
- Seamus Heaney

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

- Former U.S. president John F Kennedy

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
- George Bernard Shaw

I can resist everything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

"The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland."
- Irish President McAleese

The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse
- Dennis Miller

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain                  

Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth. 

Author Unknown

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? 

Stanislaw J. Lec

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
- Brendan Gill

"You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer."
- Hal Roach

"May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live"

Unknown

"The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake these, you've got it made."
Mark Twain

"The truth comes out when the spirit goes in."
Unknown

“Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.”
Unknown

"You should appreciate food. Take the time to cook for people. Learning how to make a new meal and to then share it, is a universal and delightful expression of love.  Food is not just something practical you have to attend three times a day.  It's a wonderful way of sharing life."
Unknown

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
Sean O'Casey

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
--Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)