Irishman

Famous quotes containing the word irishman:

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)

“The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)