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Your Quotes for 17 March 2006 - Saint Patrick's Day

Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, died on this day in the year 461, and has been regarded as a saint in Ireland since that time. (Never formally canonized, when the Roman church first published a list of saints Patrick was included.) The first known secular celebration of his feast day was a quarter-millennium ago, on this day in 1756 at the Crown and Thistle Tavern at New York City. He was one of the great missionaries, largely responsible for converting the Irish from their pagan heritage to Christianity, but the story about driving the snakes into the sea has no historical support and I've never heard any good reason why kids that forget to wear green today will get pinched!

Enough of the move is completed that I'm able to send this. I'm surrounded by boxes yet to be opened, and things aren't likely to be running smoothly for a couple of weeks, but the need for aspirin should fall off soon. Thanks for your patience.

The grass is always greener on the other side, until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close.
     - Albert Grashuis

Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass.)
     - Virgil, 70 - 19 BC

Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with other nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.
     - Edna O'Brien

The sturdy Irish arms that do the work are of more worth than oak or maple. Methinks I could look with equanimity upon a long street of Irish cabins, and pigs and children reveling in the genial Concord dirt; and I should still find my Walden Wood and Fair Haven in their tanned and happy faces.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields
and, until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
     - Irish Blessing

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