Irish Permanent

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or permanent:

“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)