<p>Naw, it just doesn’t do it for me.</p>
<p>I think the Pedro’s thread was good, though.
Try art–you can’t Google an image if you don’t know what it’s name is (reverse Google…hmm…)</p>
<p>Actually, OldinJersey, that one’s a little tough. You see it attributed to Yeats everywhere, but no one ever gives an actual cite, and no one agrees on what the subject is – he, I, an Irishman . . . And it just doesn’t sound like Yeats. Some people attribute it to Wilde, and seem to agree that the quote is “An Irishman has . . .” It sounds like Wilde. But still no specific cite.</p>
<p>My guess: Yeats quoted Wilde once.</p>
<p>Christie Brown?</p>
<p>“The French explode; the Irish stew.”</p>
<p>Here are a couple of easy ones:</p>
<p>“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”</p>
<p>“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”</p>
<p>OldinNewJersey - we could also play madlibs.</p>
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<p>Sounds like Frank McCourt, of Angela’s Ashes fame. Anyone?</p>
<p>JHS is correct…it comes from Wilde.</p>
<p>But where in Wilde? And why does everyone think Yeats said it?</p>
<p>I think Yeats and Wilde were friends, and Yeats may even have written some memoir about Wilde. Is that where it comes from?</p>
<p>well I’d always seen it attributed to Yeats, but in fact I got it from my tee-shirt. (g)
Wilde? </p>
<p>madlibs could help me get through this coming week. maybe.</p>
<p>OldinNewJersey, hang in there. </p>
<p>The quote certainly is ingrained in contemporary Irish popular culture as having been said by Yeats and yes, indeed, it is a big hit on t-shirts.</p>
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<p>difficult to imagine wilde and yeats as friends. besides, yeats claimed to have male friends for the sole purpose of discussing women and he wasn’t funny though he was gay,…</p>