Australian Bush Poetry

Trespassers prosecuted - please shut the gate. - Unknown

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call. - Jerry O'Connell

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline. - Sid Waddell

The world can't end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

When New Zealanders emigrate to Australia, it raises the average IQ of both countries. - Robert Muldoon

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, there are worse things waiting for men than death. - A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Time

Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also. - Todd Barry

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good. - Brian O'Driscoll

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow