P. Herbert
P. Herbert
blessing unattractive dull
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
essence laughing surprise
The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
rose thee made
Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
time funny-marriage breakfast
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
running rain fall
The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
writing world tonight
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
golf men blue
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
men law england
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
play symphony would-be
There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
noble purpose enjoy
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
doe too-much
Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
eye night light
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
hope men miracles-of-god
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
luck
Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.