Traditional Irish toasts and sayings for St. Patrick’s Day, most of them old enough that nobody knows who said them first. A toast is one glass raised once; the list is long so you have a choice, not a schedule. If you want the history of why the day involves a glass at all, that is here.
St. Patrick’s Day Drinking Quotes
Whether you’re clinking glasses in a crowded pub, spinning tales with pals, or just kicking back with a brew at home, these quotes are your trusty sidekicks.
- Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint – and another one!
- May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint.
- May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
- May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold—and at the end of your rainbows may you find a pot of gold.
- Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord, and it makes you miss him.
- I have known many, and liked not a few, but loved only one and this toast is to you.
- May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.
- May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load.
- May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road.
- If you’re lucky enough to be Irish… You’re lucky enough!
- May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.
- May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
- When Irish eyes are smiling, they are usually up to something.
- There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were.
- Here’s to a sweetheart, a bottle, and a friend. The first beautiful, the second full, the last ever faithful.
- May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright, happy hours that stay with you all the year long.
- May you live to be 100 years, with one extra year to repent.
- May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.
- Here’s to our wives and girlfriends: May they never meet!
- May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.
- The health of the salmon and of the trout that swim back and forth in the waters about.
- May those who love us love us. And those who don’t love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn’t turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so we’ll know them by their limping.
- May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.
- It’s better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money!
- May the luck of the Irish be with you!
- Here’s to you and yours, and to mine and ours. And if mine and ours ever come across you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours as mine and ours have done for you and yours!
- May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
- May your beer be green and your cheer be loud, for today every Irish heart is proud!
- Here’s health to your enemies’ enemies!
- May you never lie, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends.
- May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
- Here’s to me, and here’s to you. And here’s to love and laughter—I’ll be true as long as you, and not one moment after.
- May the road rise up to meet you, and the wind be always at your back.
- May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
- May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
- A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.
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