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Top 10 Irish love sayings for St. Patrick’s Day

Cupid's words flow effortlessly from the Irish

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JANE WALSHE,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Thursday, February 11, 2010, 11:35 PM
Updated Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 3:46 PM

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Who has more a way with words than the Irish? From Joyce, to Yeats to Shaw and down through the generations, they have pondered life's great questions, but also expressed their love beautifully. Here are some short love lines from the heart of the Irish:

1. Pulse of my heart, song of my soul, light of my night

2. May you have warm hands on a cold evening

3.  It is easy to half the potato when there is love

4. Love him when he least deserves it, that's when he most needs it

5. Love makes time pass, beware time making love pass

6. Always trust, when mistrust comes love goes out

7. I believe there is a sun when it is not shining, I believe there is a God when I cannot see him, I believe there is love when I feel it not

8. Beware an Irishman who loves his wife the most but his mother the longest

9. Trouble in love hates nothing more than a smile

10. Love is like a lifeboat on the stormy sea of life

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dwbrown7375 | Mar 14, 2010, 03:41 PM EDT
I would like to know who is quoted, Particularly if the lines are lifted from a poem.

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Celtichooligan | Mar 11, 2010, 11:36 PM EST
A broken heart knows love, ah too well.....

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knitbea | Mar 11, 2010, 06:41 PM EST
i like some of them but a few i don't buy

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irishathens | Mar 11, 2010, 11:22 AM EST
I also love from Brittany (the celtic part of France) My love is like an artichoke divided into two..the leaves I give to others but the heart I give to you.

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kassieomasi1 | Mar 11, 2010, 10:39 AM EST
I love anything Irish!

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mandokeith | Mar 11, 2010, 09:26 AM EST
Only the Irish can write like this......

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woodmontwoman | Mar 11, 2010, 09:07 AM EST
I'd also love to see some phrases in Irish Gaelic --complete with how to pronounce them, machushla...

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zenahifalls | Feb 15, 2010, 01:41 PM EST
i though st patrick removed all the snakes from ireland looks like a big boa in that nice picture by the stream

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mamie202 | Feb 14, 2010, 11:09 AM EST
Makes me proud to be Irish!

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karenhernandez | Feb 14, 2010, 12:12 AM EST
these are some of the most beautiful words i have ever heard. who wrote it?

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hchriste | Feb 13, 2010, 09:57 AM EST
neat

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irishguy | Feb 12, 2010, 10:17 PM EST
Sure a little bit of heaven fell from out the sky one day and it nestled in the ocean in a spot so far away sure and when the angels found it, and it looked so peaceful there They sprinkled it with stardust just to make it's lakes so grand\ and when they had it finished thet called it (lonely old earth?)

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figtirish | Feb 12, 2010, 03:05 PM EST
No. 3 is attributed to the 18th century poet Daithi o Bruadair

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MarinaWhelan | Feb 12, 2010, 02:35 PM EST
I think this site is the greatest! I love all the articles, which are so well written. My favorite Irish love line is #7. My Irish roots are deep, plan to come over someday, and see the green grass of my decendents.

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Nelliegrace | Feb 12, 2010, 02:16 PM EST
These are all so beautiful but #3 is the most haunting, the most poignant and moving, and the truest, deepest expresson of love I think I have ever heard. That is what love it all about. Who wrote it?

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