Famous quotes containing the words vincent wright wotton, ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“And mother almost always sighs,
When father carves the duck.
Then all of us prepare to rise,
And hold our bibs before our eyes,
And be prepared for some surprise,
When father carves the duck.”
—Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton (1872–1939)
“It’s up the spout and Charley Wag
With wipes and tickers and what not
Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,—
No higher than the soul is high.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)