47 Quotes by Henry Lawson

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame’s sake.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush – the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

You who drink because of shame that you think will last, or because of wrong done you—trouble in the past—“Nothing left to live for now,” you will say, I know; but you have your own self yet, give that self a show!

To a distant goal, like the grey wolves grey.

We robbed the water and the air to give us “energy,” / As we’d exhaust Thy secret store of electricity. / The day may come—and such a day!—when we shall need all three.

His grave is growing old and green / And things have altered rather / But still I think ’twas mighty mean / The way I treated father. / He left a tidy sum to me / But I’d give all the money / To hear him say, “Will you get up / And bile the billy, Sonny?”

And fair across to where we know / The shelving sea cliffs are— / The lighthouse, with a still faint glow, / Beneath a twinkling star.

Here’s luck!’ while waitin’ for the luck that never comes.