Irish Advent Calendar

No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley

Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Good wine needs no vine. - French Proverb

Beer speaks. People mumble. - Tony McGee

Does wine count as a serving of fruit? - Joe-kster

Wine improves with age. I improve with wine. - Unknown

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce

Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. - Ernest Hemingway

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. - Irish Proverb

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

No date on the calendar is as important as tomorrow. - Roy W Howard

I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food. - WC Fields

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen

Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? - Cardinal Richelieu

Some call it Cocktail Hour. To me, it's a support group. - Unknown

I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already. - Tommy Cooper

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. - Bob Marley

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. - Edna O'Brien

One martini is all right, two is too many, three is not enough. - James Thurber

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. - Ralph Richardson

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Kaiser Willhelm II

In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. - George Best

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D.H. Lawrence

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar. - Groucho Marx

Why is it that everybody's suing the tobacco companies and not the alcohol companies? - Donald Trump

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole

The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. - Samuel Johnson

They don't make pizza or beer out of celery. And that is all you need to know about celery. - Bill Murray

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it. - Susie Bright

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry

Be ruthless about your calendar - stick to it, hell or high water but create space for unstructured time as well. - Arjun Arora

May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door. - Irish Blessings

Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? - Lara Flynn Boyle

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. - Ernest Hemingway

If you sang "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" and counted all the numbers mentioned throughout the entire song, it would add up to 14,850. - Joe-kster

How much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar. - Joe Torre