Tag: Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert

Life’s a pudding full of plums;

Care’s a canker that benumbs,

Wherefore waste our elocution

On impossible solution?

Life’s a pleasant institution,

Let us take it as it comes!

Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert

As someday it may happen that a victim must be found

I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list

Of society offenders who might well be underground,

And who never would be missed—who never would be missed!

Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,

All centuries but this and every country but his own.

Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert