The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Attributed; after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862
12.58 Richard Le Gallienne 1866-1947
The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain,
For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.
‘The Cry of the Little Peoples’
12.59 Ernest Lehman
Sweet smell of success.
Title of book and film (1957)
12.60 Tom Lehrer 1928—
Plagiarize! Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes.
‘Lobachevski’ (1953 song)
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Preamble to ‘We Will All Go Together When We Go’, in ‘An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer’ (1953
record album)
And we will all go together when we go—
Every Hottentot and every Eskimo.
‘We Will All Go Together When We Go’ (1953 song)
12.61 Fred W. Leigh d. 1924
There was I, waiting at the church,
Waiting at the church, waiting at the church,
When I found he’d left me in the lurch...
Here’s the very note,
This is what he wrote—
‘Can’t get away to marry you today,
My wife won’t let me!’
‘Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won’t Let Me)’ (1906 song)
12.62 Fred W. Leigh d. 1924, Charles Collins, and Lily Morris
Why am I always the bridesmaid, Never the blushing bride?
‘Why Am I Always the Bridesmaid?’ (1917 song)
12.63 Henry Sambrooke Leigh 1837-83
The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure
Of drinking at somebody else’s expense.
‘Carols of Cockayne’ (1869) ‘Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly’