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Letter "W" » Wonders
"He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art the messenger, shalt ride before him
On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.
That shall be made to go with golden wheels,
I know not how yet."
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
About: Wonders
"Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
[Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
Nox nulla secuta est.]"
Author: Robert Burton
About: Wonders
"A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!"
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Wonders
"If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to
himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will
find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the
discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Wonders
"The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for
want of wonder."
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
About: Wonders
"We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East."
Author: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
About: Wonders
"Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired
Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam
triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no
man never see, and that's a dead donkey."
Author: Charles Dickens
About: Wonders
"Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law."
Author: John Dryden
About: Wonders
"Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Wonders
"This wonder lasted nine daies."
Author: John Heywood
About: Wonders
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