May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift

I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. - James Joyce

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats

On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew - Patrick Kavanagh

Our foes are strong and wise and wary; but, strong and wise and wary as they are, they cannot undo the miracles of God who ripens in the hearts of young men the seeds sown by the young men of a former generation. - Pádraig Pearse

The minstrel boy to the war has gone, in the ranks of dead you'll find him - Thomas Moore