Ascending Limb

Famous quotes containing the words ascending and/or limb:

“To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.”
—Chinese proverb.

“... our great-grandmothers were prudes. The reason why they talked so much about their souls, I fancy, is that there was hardly a limb or a feature of the human body that they thought it proper to mention.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)