Henry Lawson

“Mateship is a sacred thing.”

“Let the world go by, there's always time for a yarn and a pint of beer.”

“While the Billy Boils.”

“They tramp in mateship side by side - The Protestant and Roman.”

“And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush—the bush with no horizon, where the faint blue gums grew waving above the face of the scrub.”

“The bush consists of glorious climatic conditions and a few stereotyped ideas which grow tiresome.”

“We drink to forget the coming storm, and we laugh to forget the storm we're in.”

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”

“The Australian writer, until he gets a London hearing, is only a voice crying in the wilderness.”

“I don't care if the world is round or flat. I'm not going anywhere.”

“If you know a country's draymen, you know its people.”