Famous quotes containing the word creeping:
“But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.”
—Harold Monro (18791932)
“The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are ones mistakes.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
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