“O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad:
Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, chorus (1793)
“Whistle, and she'll come to you.”
Act IV, scene 4.
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
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Anton Mauve (1838–1888) Dutch painter (1838–1888)
(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Anton Mauve, in het Nederlands:) Je gaat naar buiten, steekt je pijpje op, fluit een deuntje en schildert wat je tegenkomt.
Mauve's advice to his students; as cited by H.L. Berckenhoff, in Anton Mauve, Etsen van Ph. Zilcken, met fascimiles naar schilderijen, teekeningen en studies, Amsterdam 1890, (microfiche RKD-Archive Den Haag: Berckenhoff, 1890, p. 20)
Mauve's way of painting was in fact the opposite of his advice: often changing and much struggle
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“I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief
“Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
“He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.”
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
On Sigmund Romberg, as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974) by Howard Dietz, p. 61
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Mine
“Surprising news from New York, the whistle-blower had his whistle blown!”
Amy Poehler (1971) American actress
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John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
Epistle to Lloyd I' as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Wang Wei (699–759) a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
"Bamboo Grove" (竹里馆), as translated by Arthur Sze in The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (2013), p. 19
Variant translation:
Lying alone in this dark bamboo grove,
Playing on a flute, continually whistling,
In this dark wood where no one comes,
The bright moon comes to shine on me.
"In a Bamboo Grove" in The White Pony, ed. Robert Payne, p. 151