If you wish in this world to advance,
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
and blow your own trumpet.
Or trust me, you haven't a chance.
Source: In The Manager's Book of Quotations, by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989.
-- William Gilbert, (Nov 18 1836-1911), English dramatist; He collaborated with Sullivan on 14 comic operas, including Pirates of Penzance, 1880; The Mikado, 1885.