Quotes from Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.