The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

For he’ll grow into a hound, so we’ll pass the bottle round,
And merrily we’ll whoop and we’ll holloa.
‘Drink, Puppy, Drink’ chorus
11.80 Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) 1884-1947
It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
‘The Affinity’
11.81 Bishop Samuel Wilberforce 1805-73
If I were a cassowary
On the plains of Timbuctoo,
I would eat a missionary,
Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
Impromptu verse, ascribed also to W.M. Thackeray
11.82 Richard Wilbur 1921—
We milk the cow of the world, and as we do
We whisper in her ear, ‘You are not true.’
‘Epistemology’
11.83 Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855-1919
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
‘Solitude’
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
‘The World’s Need’
11.84 Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead.
‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ (1898) pt. 1, st. 1