155 Quotes by Robert Brown

And that's what all the blessed evil's for.

And the muttering grew to a grumbling; / And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;/ And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.

As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair / In leprosy.

You should not take a fellow eight years old / And make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees / (If our loves remain) / In an English lane, / By a cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.

This is a spray the Bird clung to.

They expect us to open our doors in September, but we don't get our money until November or December, if our applications are approved. By that time, the kids are halfway into the semester.

The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!

There may be heaven; there must be hell; / Meantime, there is our earth here - well!