Famous quotes containing the words brothers, wet and/or whisker:
“Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked twixt son and father.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“You had been travelling for days
With an old lady, who marked
A neat circle on the glass
With her glove, to watch us
Move into the wet darkness
Kissing, still unable to speak.”
—John Montague (b. 1929)
“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)
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