William Maginn

Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old.

Every popular preacher is a goose.

Tap claret tastes best out of a pewter pot.

Marrying girls is a nice matter always; for they are as cautious as crows plundering a corn-field. ... I don't myself, I profess, upon principle, see any objection to marrying a widow. ... If a woman, however, has had more than three …

You've heard, I suppose, long ago, How the snakes, in a manner most antic, He march'd 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 …