A cat may look at a king.
John SimpsonA 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 CunninghamWe 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.
benedict arnoldA 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 CunninghamThus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Mæander.
ovidOne [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
isaac newtonLet's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
unknownWhen Harriet goes to bed with a man, she always takes her wet blanket with her.
Anatole BroyardI hate people who play bridge as though they were at a funeral and knew their feet were getting wet.
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
robert benchleyYou can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
james carvilleNight is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.
james montgomerySo my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.
Madalyn Murray O'HairDigital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
bruce schneierYou find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.
ingmar bergmanWhen rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river’s reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.
alexander blokIf all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!
yuri gagarinThe born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer’s ink, think they’re starting on the ground floor; so they’re condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
camille pagliaWhy, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry, "Content" to that which grieves my heart; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
william shakespeareTheir books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair.
william shenstoneThe first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn.
The sweetest teaching did he introduce, Concealing truth under untrue speech. The place he spoke of as the gods' abode Was that by which he might awe humans most, The place from which, he knew, terrors came to mortals And things advantageous in their wearisome life The revolving heaven above, in which dwell The lightnings, and awesome claps Of thunder, and the starry face of heaven, Beautiful and intricate by that wise craftsman Time, From which, too, the meteor's glowing mass speeds And wet thunderstorm pours forth upon the earth.