Thickness Burns Involving

Famous quotes containing the words thickness, burns and/or involving:

    “For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
    There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;
    And God will grow no talons at his heels,
    Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    “Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord,
    A bluidy man I trow thou be;
    For mony a heart thou hast made sair
    That ne’er did wrong to thine or thee.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.”
    —Cesare Pavese (1908–1950)