(15 quotes found)
“I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.”
John Keats
“I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow -- they came from the heart of a great nation.”
Ronald Reagan
“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
A. P. Herbert
“LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)”
Ambrose Bierce
“The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;/ Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,/ And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
Wilfred Owen
“Eternity was in our lips and eyes,Bliss in our brows bent.”
William Shakespeare
“Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow”
Spanish Proverb
“He was not born to shame.Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.”
“Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and to-morrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.”
Charles Wolfe
