"It is singular that scarcely any tailor who can make a coat well, can make pantaloons."
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."
"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."