Premature Pipe Bomb

Famous quotes containing the words premature, pipe and/or bomb:

    “God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Pretty friendship ‘tis to rhyme
    Your friends to death before their time
    Moping melancholy mad:
    Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.””
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.
    Spare their women for Thy Sake,
    And if that is not too easy
    We will pardon Thy Mistake.
    But gracious Lord, whate’er shall be,
    Don’t let anyone bomb me.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)