Wet Quotes
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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.
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.
benedict arnold— Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer (1876, p. 5)
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)
One [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 newton— Written in remarks to the 1714 Longitude committee; quoted in Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobel, p. 52 (i998 edition) ISBN 1-85702-571-7),
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
unknown— c.1925 The origin of this line is disputed; it has been attributed to Billy Wilder, Charles Butterworth, Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley's press agent. It was used by Mae West in Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film) and by Benchley in The Major and the Minor (1942 film).
When Harriet goes to bed with a man, she always takes her wet blanket with her.
Anatole Broyard— 1974 On a character in Iris Owen's After Claude (1973). Aroused by Books.
I hate people who play bridge as though they were at a funeral and knew their feet were getting wet.
— 1921 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
— 1916 Lustra,'In a Station of the Metro'.
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
robert benchley— Spoken to Ginger Rogers in the film, The Major and the Minor (1942)
You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
james carville— On Obama winning the White House
— CNN Election Night in America 10/7/2008
She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 11. (Part I)
Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.
james montgomery— The Issues of Life and Death.
So 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'Hair— "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray", Playboy (October 1965)
Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
bruce schneier— Schneier, Bruce (2001-05-15). The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention. Cryptogram newsletter. Retrieved on 2006-09-08.
You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.
ingmar bergman— "Alma" (Bibi Andersson) in Persona (1966)
When 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 blok— "Autumn Love" (1907); translation from C. M. Bowra (ed.) A Book of Russian Verse (London: Macmillan, 1943) p. 99.
If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!
yuri gagarin— Asking for the roof of his car to be put back despite the pouring rain, during his visit to Manchester (12 July 1961), as quoted in "Yuri Gagarin: Mankind's first giant leap" in The Economist (3 August 2011)
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
ruth bader ginsburg— Dissenting, Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
You have done Good for yourselves Since you left my wet embrace And crawled ashore . . . My sons and my daughters Ho-oh! Your sweat is salty I am why
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Oceania", from Medúlla (2004)
No Guru, no method, no teacher Just you and I and nature And the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost In the garden wet with rain.
van morrison— In the Garden
The 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 paglia— p. 202 (Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf)
Why, 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 shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 2, line 182.
Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair.
william shenstone— William Shenstone, The Schoolmistress, Stanza 18.
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs; But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, The Liner She's a Lady.
The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn.
— Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Ode to a Starling.
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.
— Sisyphus as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett
