Top ten Irish love sayings for Valentine’s Day

Cupid's words flow effortlessly from the Irish

JANE WALSH,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Sunday, February 12, 2012, 7:19 AM

Updated Sunday, February 12, 2012, 7:19 AM

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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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Murph46 | Feb 13, 2012, 10:56 AM EST

rumbunctious republican rapscallion rapparee,rebel rousers! IrelandNorth pardon my alliterative additions.

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IrelandNorth | Feb 13, 2012, 05:46 AM EST

Mind you, Joyce had one seriously steamy relationship with Nora Barnacle, who quite obviously "... lost his love to a Galway girl." Poor old William Butler Yeats lost his love to a Anglo-Irish ascendency Sligo girl, Maud Gonne Mc Bride, who herself preferred a rebellious Irish nationalist-republican smelling of cordite. While gentlemen may prefer blondes, high society AI ladies always prefer rumbunctious Irish republican rapscallions.

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Murph46 | Feb 12, 2012, 07:16 PM EST

I;m in Ohio USA and I ain't going away!By the way it's doubtful you could get the same response I get from the Irish Maiden's prayer! Ha!

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oaklongan | Feb 12, 2012, 06:23 PM EST

Murph46, Thanks for makin' my Day! When and where can we meet?

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Murph46 | Feb 12, 2012, 10:10 AM EST

Do you know the Irish Maiden's prayer? - Lord,have Murphy on me!

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Murph46 | Feb 12, 2012, 10:08 AM EST

Have you ever taken a walk on the wild side,with an Irishman,and a bottle of Jameson's?