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There is a penalty for trying to knock
down a cockpit door, but it's the people
who try to go read more
There is a penalty for trying to knock
down a cockpit door, but it's the people
who try to go from coach to 1st class
they really beat up.
The sinews of affairs are cut.
The sinews of affairs are cut.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
