C. J. Dennis Quotes
1876–1938 Australia
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J.
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Random C. J. Dennis quote
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Someone has said
From the day we draw breath
Until life be sped
Two things are certain:
Taxes and death.
From the rise of the curtain,
On life's dreary round,
As hope wanes or waxes,
Man ever found
Two things are certain:
Taxes and death—
Especially taxes.
It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that when Dennis decided to migrate from South Australia he telegraphed his father, "Send ten pounds. Going Broken Hill", to which appeal the old man promptly replied, "Sending nothing. Go to hell!"
Now, a woman, she’s a woman. I ’ave fixed that for a cert.
They’re jist as like as rows uv peas from ’at to ’em uv skirt.
An’ then, they’re all so different, yeh find, before yeh’ve done,
The more yeh know uv all uv ’em the less yeh know uv one.
Sittin' at ev'nin' in this sunset-land,
Wiv 'Er in all the World to 'old me 'and,
A son, to bear me name when I am gone. ...
Livin' an' lovin'—so life mooches on.
I sometimes think stone is too precious truly,
Bronze far too permanent for human clods
Whom men rush in to celebrate unduly:
Immortal stuff is for immortal gods
Carved by great artists. Let the celebration
Of men be in such stuff as may be pulped;
Reserve the rock for glorious inspiration:
Venus to pose, Praxiteles to sculpt.
Willy! O 'ell! 'Ere wus a flamin' pill!
A moniker that alwus makes me ill.
"If it's the same to you, mum," I replies
"I answer quicker to the name of Bill."
Farmer! That's me! Wiv this 'ere strong right 'and
I've gripped the plough; and blistered jist a treat.
Doreen an' me 'as gone upon the land.
Yours truly fer the burden an' the 'eat!