“Oh what can ail thee, wretched wight, / Alone and palely loitering; / The sedge is withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.”
John Keats
“After Wight went out with his fourth foul (in the third quarter) we got four or five steals in a row. I really thought that changed the complexion of the game.”
Rob Detzel
“From the withered tree, a flower blooms”
Zen Proverb
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
Chanakya
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy”
William Shakespeare
“National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services”
Corazon Aquino
“Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.”