Edge Length

Famous quotes containing the words edge and/or length:

“Truth that peeps
Over the glasses’ edge when dinner’s done.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child’s outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child’s innocence.”
—Christoph Meckel (20th century)