Wet Quotes
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We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.
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More Wet Quotes
But, Madam, let your grief be laid aside,And let the fountain of your tears be dry'd,In vain they flow to wet the dusty plain,Your sighs are wafted to the skies in vain,Your pains they witness, but they can no more,While Death reigns tyrant o'er this mortal shore.
phillis wheatley— "To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, aged one Year." st. 2, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
A cat may look at a king.
John Simpson— The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Illustrated ed., p. 400)
A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sails, And bends the gallant mast! And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England in the lee.
Allan Cunningham— Allan Cunningham, Songs of Scotland, A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,A wind that follows fast,And fills the white and rustling sail,And bends the gallant mast.And bends the gallant mast, my boys,While like the eagle freeAway the good ship flies, and leavesOld England on the lee.
Allan Cunningham— "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Mæander.
ovid— Ovid, Epigram VII. Riley's translation.
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet out ankles. The water seems inviting.
carl sagan— Cosmos, Chapter 1 (1985, p. 2)
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till hishairsweregrown like eagles'feathers, and his nails like birds'claws.
Bible (Old Testament)— Daniel 4:33.
Then the wet, winding roads, Brown bogs with black water; And my thoughts on white ships And the King o' Spain's daughter.
Padraic Colum— 1907 'A Drover'.
Friends To borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson— 1902 Captain Craig,'Captain Craig', pt.2.
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
— 1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'When I Am dead'.
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. Late in the night when the fires are out, Why does he gallop and gallop about?
Robert Louis Stevenson— 1885 A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.9,'Windy Nights', stanza1.
The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.
Stephen Crane— "The Clan of No Name" (1899); published in the anthology Wounds in the Rain (1900)
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
haim ginott— Quoted in Practical Parenting Tips By Vicki Lansky, p.190
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
Robert Smith Surtees— Ch. 21 (Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853))
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.
— The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), Act III. Sc. 1. Compare: "Distilled damnation", Robert Hall (in Gregory's Life of Hall).
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.
charlotte brontë— Ch. XVI (The Professor (1857))
She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
Raymond Chandler— chapter 2 (The High Window (1942))
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
thomas de quincey— Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
gerard manley hopkins— Inversnaid, lines 13-16
This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
ted hughes— "Wind" (The Hawk in the Rain (1957))
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.
john townsend trowbridge— Service.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the umbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
john gay— John Gay, Trivia, Book I, line 209.
The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
— Part I, chapter 11. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))
Civilization began around wetlands; today's civilization has every reason to leave them wet and wild.
— Edward Maltby, Waterlogged Wealth, 1986.
Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 400.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe , and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet , and they have to touch it to be sure.
— George Carlin in: J. J. Dyken The Divine Default: Why Faith is Not the Answer, Algora Publishing, 2013, p.32
She's cold...she's cold and wet...
— Who: Lucy Householder
— Source: The X-Files episode "Oubliette"
— Note: Character, who shares a telepathic link with a teenage abduction victim, is telling Mulder that the girl is in a river; character later dies from drowning while sitting in a car.
