Irish Sugar

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or sugar:

    “The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “‘Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
    ‘You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.’”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)