Brothers Wet Whisker

Famous quotes containing the words brothers, wet and/or whisker:

    “Wi’ joy unfeigned brothers and sisters meet,
    An’ each for other’s 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 (1759–1796)

    “the tide lays down its wet throat
    and alters the land to island—even as I watch
    I say there is no shore
    apart from stories of it,
    no smoke, no hut, no beacon ...”
    —Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)

    “The hapless Nymph with wonder saw:
    A whisker first and then a claw,
    With many an ardent wish,
    She stretch’d in vain to reach the prize.
    What female heart can gold despise?
    What Cat’s averse to fish?”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)