warm quotes

Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.

-Rochdale
 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.306.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

-Greer, Germaine
  In the NewYork Times, 24 Mar.

Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by? Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry; Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky? Have you heard the still voice callingöyet so warm, and yet so cold: 'I'm the Mother-Bush that bore you! Come to me when you are old'?

-Lawson, Henry Hertzberg
'On the Night Train', collected in Colin Roderick (ed) Henry Lawson: Collected Verse (3 vols,1967^9).

I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black† Being black iswarm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  Voyage in the Dark, ch.1.

[Gladstone] spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question.Unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question.

-J(ulian)
1066 and AllThat.

And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'The Question', stanza 3.

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