One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of tw...o beer glasses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have c...onceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young man of Australia Who painted his ass like a dahlia.... The drawing was fine And the painting divine But the aroma--that was the failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing mu...ch the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In proper English households . . . one writer remembered in the 1630s as a time when, "The child perfectly loathed the sight of hi...s parents, as the slave his Torturer. Gentlemen of 30 or 40 years old, fitt for any employment in the commonwealth, were to stand like great mutes and fools bare headed before their parents; and the Daughters (grown women) were to stand at the Cupboards side during the whole time of the proud mothers visit, unless (as the fashion was) 'twas desired that leave (forsooth) should be given to them to kneele upon cushions brought them by the servingman, after they had done sufficient Penance standing."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to b...e taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fa...shions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a t...housand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a tho...usand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »