Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.


Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

John Wolcot Quotes

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.