Edgar Whitcomb/early Life

Famous quotes containing the words whitcomb, early and/or life:

    A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
    An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
    Ef you
    Don’t
    Watch
    Out!
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
    James Thurber (1894–1961)

    Only man thinning out his kind
    sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind
    swipe of the pruner and his knife
    busy about the tree of life . . .
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)