Famous quotes containing the words brothers, wet and/or whisker:
“Wi joy unfeigned brothers and sisters meet,
An each for others weelfare kindly spiers:
The social hours, swift-winged, unnoticed fleet;
Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears;
The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years;
Anticipation forward points the view:”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“The hapless Nymph with wonder saw:
A whisker first and then a claw,
With many an ardent wish,
She stretchd in vain to reach the prize.
What female heart can gold despise?
What Cats averse to fish?”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)