An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.