"There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle,
'Twas St Patrick himself, sure, that set it;
And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile,
And with dew from his eye often wet it.
It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland;
And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland..."

~ Andrew Cherry

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

~ Irish Blessing

"You've heard I suppose, long ago,
How the snakes, in a manner most antic,
He marched to the county Mayo,
And trundled them into th' Atlantic"

~ William Maginn

"When people tell you that you can't do something, you kind of want to try it."

~ Margaret Chase Smith

"Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there is a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it."

~ Kitty Kelly

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."

~ Rita Mae Brown

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."

~ Maya Angelou

"If you are not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room."

~ Lorraine Teel

"You must do the thing that you think you cannot do."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"I don't waste time thinking, "Am I doing it right?" I ask, "Am I doing it?""

~ Georgette Mosbacher

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

~ Delores Ibarruri

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say, "I don't want it right now," that's when you will get it for sure."

~ Linda Barry

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone, but not the complete structure."

~ Bette Davis

"Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It is curative. It is creative."

~ Zona Gale

"Sometimes it is worse to win a fight than lose."

~ Billie Holiday

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

~ Phyllis Diller

"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman; the magnetism of it is health-giving."

~ Margaret Sanger

"When one is pretending, the entire body revolts."

~ Anais Nin

"The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart."

~ Lisa Alther

"All great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

~ Marya Mannes