Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“Its up the spout and Charley Wag
With wipes and tickers and what not
Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.”
—William Ernest Henley (18491903)
“On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I dont want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)
“He first deceasd; She for a little trid
To live without him: likd it not, and did.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (15681639)