Does anyone know of some great Irish sayings ie: the top of the morning to ya!, or, may the sun rise up & kiss

Question:Would appreciate some humerous Irish sayings please !

Answers:
These are from www.theholidayspot.com. There were other blessings. I sent the ones on the humorous side!
May you be in
Heaven a half hour before the
Devil knows you're dead!

These proverbs are from about.com

As are these.


Irish Blessing
May the Good Lord take a liking to you... but not too soon!

Author Unknown
Saint Patrick was a gentleman
Who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland
Here's a drinkee to his health!
But not too many drinkees
Lest we lose ourselves and then...
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see them snakes again!

Daryl Stout
Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover? You don't want to press your luck.

And last but not least from Mark and Brian (Radio Hosts)

They determined that "sure and begora" means "you have a cute butt".

Irish Saying
There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were.

Irish Saying
There are many good reasons for drinking,
One has just entered my head.
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How in the hell can he drink when he's dead?

Irish Saying
An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

Charles M. Madigan
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.

St. Patrick's Day Toast
Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer – and another one!

Irish Toast
It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money!

Irish Toast
May you die in bed at ninety-five years, shot by a jealous husband (or wife).

Irish Proverb
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Irish Proverb
You never miss the water till the well has run dry.

Ed McMahon
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Winston Churchill
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Irish Proverb
Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

Irish Proverb
Praise the ripe field not the green corn.

Irish Proverb
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Irish Proverb
Nodding the head does not row the boat.

Irish Proverb
Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Irish Proverb
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.





There are many good reasons for drinking,
One has just entered my head.
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How in the hell can he drink when he's dead?

May the best day of your past
Be the worst day of your future.


May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.

May those who love us, love us
And those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if he can't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping!

As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

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Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!



'Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead.



Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
no ie don,t know.
If it wasn't for me eers, me hat wood fall down over me eyes!
Top of the morning to yer! Tanks, be jasus!
h a p p y g r rrr eee nn p a t t i e s Day.,

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