Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

More Quotes by W. H. Davies

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.