Famous quotes containing the words unknown, twa and/or corbies:
“If what you mean by the word “matter” be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“There were twa sisters sat in a bour;
Binnorie, O Binnorie!
There cam a knight to be their wooer,
By the bonnie milldams o’ Binnorie.”
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 1–4)
“I heard twa corbies making a mane;
The tane unto the t’other say,
“Where sall we gang and dine today?””
—Unknown. The Twa Corbies (l. 2–4)