Large Irish

Famous quotes containing the words large and/or irish:

    For my desert, I helped myself to a large slice of the Chesuncook woods, and took a hearty draught of its waters with all my senses.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)