Wild Billy Childish

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

    ““Because I am mad about women
    I am mad about the hills,”
    Said that wild old wicked man
    Who travels where God wills....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    ““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)

    “I remember, I remember
    The fir trees dark and high;
    I used to think their slender tops
    Were close against the sky;
    It was a childish ignorance,
    But now ‘tis little joy
    To know I’m further off from Heaven
    Than when I was a boy.”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)