A wet hand will hold a dead herring. [ Proverb ]

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

And wet his grave with my repentant tears. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love waits for love, though the sun be set,
And the stars come out, the dews are wet,
And the night-winds moan. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn.
And violets bathe in the wet of the morn. [ Burns ]

A Scots mist will wet an Englishman to the skin. [ Proverb ]

There is as much hold of his words, as of a wet eel's tail. [ Proverb ]

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]