“Here come your pride and joyThe comic little drunk you call your boy,Making everybody smile<BR”
All Cleaned Out.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)
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Charles James Napier (1782–1853) Commander-in-Chief in British India
After the Battle of Miani, where most of the Mirs surrendered. One leader held back and was told this by Napier.
Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 29
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
"But this must transcend even national borders and extend to humanity because if ideas be only for the prosperity of your country, it would end where it began, by being a prophet to your own community and very probably to your own self.
In another lecture in Madras now (Chennai) quoted in "Selected Letters, Gandhi -Sarojini Naidu Correspondence, Preface".
Poetry
“Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.”
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.
Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
George Henry Powell (1880–1951) songwriter
Song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (1915).