Famous quotes containing the words unknown, bonny, barbara and/or allan:
“All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And, spite of pride, in erring reasons spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever IS, is RIGHT.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“He kicked the ball with his right foot,
And catched it with his knee,
And through and through the Jews window
He gared the bonny ball flee.”
—Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 58)
“O mother, mother, make my bed!
O make it saft and narrow!
Since my love died for me today,
Ill die for him tomorrow.”
—Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 3336)
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more activenot more happynor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)