William Maginn
William Maginn
William Maginn was an Irish journalist and writer.
"Marrying girls is a nice matter always; for they are as cautious as crows plundering a corn-field. ... I dont myself, I profess, upon principle, see any objection to marrying a widow. ... If a woman, however, has had more than three husbands, she poisons them: avoid her."
"Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old."
"Tap claret tastes best out of a pewter pot."
"There is no such thing as female genius."
"Every popular preacher is a goose."
"Much is to be said in favour of toasted cheese for supper."
"When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk."
"Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose."
"Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced."
"He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated."
"In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste."
"Youve heard, I suppose, long ago, How the snakes, in a manner most antic, He marchd to the County Mayo, And trundled them into th Atlantic. Hence not to use water for drink The people of Ireland determine; With mighty good reason, I think, Since St Patrick has filld it with vermin, And vipers, and other such stuff."
