Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or men:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Poor men have grown to be rich men,
And rich men grown to be poor again,
And I am running to Paradise;
And many a darling wits grown dull
That tossed a bare heel when at school,
Now it has filled an old sock full....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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