Shamrock Fight

Famous quotes containing the words shamrock and/or fight:

“O Paddy dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green!”
—Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 37–40)

“No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)