“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”
“Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.”
“No one can break your heart, if no one knows you have one”
“You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?”