Wild Billy Childish

Famous quotes containing the words wild, billy and/or childish:

    “An endless imbroglio
    Is law and the world,—
    Then first shalt thou know,
    That in the wild turmoil,
    Horsed on the Proteus,
    Thou ridest to power,
    And to endurance.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ““Oh, where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    Oh, where have you been, charming Billy?”
    “I’ve been to seek a wife,
    She’s the joy of my life,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 1–5)

    “Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)