“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“(First woman)…Men lose their sense of humor as they get older…their brains shrink…So men will be getting grumpier, just as we're getting…(Second woman) Shorter.”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 64
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