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)

    “To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “What should we think of the shepherd’s life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)