William Maginn quotes

“Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.”
-- William Maginn

Source : William Maginn (1885). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”

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“No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.”
-- William Maginn

Source : William Maginn (1855). “The Odoherty papers”, p.137

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“What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?”
-- William Maginn

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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?”

“A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.”

“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

“And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!”

“Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.”

“I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.”