Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that “ancient institution ” the old one.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it’s ten to one if they hang long together.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
Some people’s hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear ’em rattle as they walk.
Love’s like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life.
Love’s like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
If slander be a snake it is a winged one – it flies as well as creeps.
Honest bread is very well – it’s the butter that makes the temptation.
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.