The Ginger Man
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“On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.”
“The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”
“If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.”
Source: The Ginger Man
Source: The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
“The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.”
“See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.”
“You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”
Source: A Fairy Tale of New York
“I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.”
Source: The Ginger Man
“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”
“To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.”
Source: The Ginger Man
“Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.”
“Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.”
“I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.”
Source: The Ginger Man
“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”
Source: A Fairy Tale of New York