Thread: Great sayings

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating
the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

This one cost me ten bucks


Mary Gilmore
1940


Sons of the mountains of Scotland,
Welshmen of coomb and defile,
Breed of the moors of England,
Children of Erin's green isle,
We stand four square to the tempest,
Whatever the battering hail-
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

Our women shall walk in honour,
Our children shall know no chain,
This land, that is ours forever,
The invader shall strike at in vain.
Anzac!...Tobruk!...and Kokoda!...
Could ever the old blood fail?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

So hail-fellow-met we muster,
And hail-fellow-met fall in,
Wherever the guns may thunder,
Or the rocketing air-mail spin!
Born of the soil and the whirlwind,
Though death itself be the gale-
No foe shall gather our harvest
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

We are the sons of Australia,
of the men who fashioned the land;
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

Pedro,

You have quoted a changed version of Mary Gilmores poem,

(written during the Second World War. Published in The Australian Women's Weekly, 29 June 1940. Therefore Tobruk / Kokoda would have been accurate predictions! YOUR VERSION IS FROM TOWARDS THE END OF ww2 )

This is the unchanged version..


No foe shall gather our harvest

Sons of the mountains of Scotland,
Clansmen from correi and kyle,
Bred of the moors of England,
Children of Erin's green isle,
We stand four-square to the tempest,
Whatever the battering hail ?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

Our women shall walk in honor,
Our children shall know no chain,
This land that is ours forever
The invader shall strike at in vain.
Anzac! . . . Bapaume! . . . and the Marne! . . .
Could ever the old blood fail?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

So hail-fellow-met we muster,
And hail-fellow-met fall in,
Wherever the guns may thunder,
Or the rocketing ?air mail? spin!
Born of the soil and the whirlwind,
Though death itself be the gale ?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

We are the sons of Australia,
Of the men who fashioned the land,
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them, hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

? MARY GILMORE.


She was 75 at the time

Some notes:-

Bapaume = a town in northern France, which was captured by the German army, and regained by Allied forces (including Australians) in March 1917; it was recaptured by the Germans a week later, and subsequently regained by the Allies in September 1918

correi = a steep-sided hollow on a hillside or mountainside, especially referring to one in the mountains of Scotland (also spelt as ?corrie?; also called a ?cirque? or ?cwm?)

Erin = Ireland

kyle = (Scottish) a narrow sea channel or strait (from the Gaelic ?caol?, meaning ?narrow?)

Marne = the Marne River in France, around which the Second Battle of the Marne was fought in 1918, between the Allied forces (including Australians) and the German army



Just thought Id add the original, I heard the original from a bloke at an RSL night years ago and it stuck with me... Cheers Pedro!

"Experience" is being able to recognize you've made the same mistake before...

Answer to the polite greeting - question of 'How are you?'

- "Full of beans & Bulldust"

Im off like a bucket of prawns in the sun

Im all over it like a fat kid on a cupcake

Thank your mother for the rabbits

Australian A catchphrase used as a farewell:
see you tomorrow and thank your mother for the rabbits
[Popularly attributed to the Depression years when rabbits were welcome gifts]

My understanding is the farmers wife had no flour or suger, but could give the swaggie a few rabbits, to keep them going.

Sign I spotted yesterday on a student's locker door:


"I'd jump into your teapot to make life sweeter for you, baby."


The locker belonged to a female student, so I'm still thinking about what it could mean ...

That could make an onion cry...




Cheers Ean