Fast Leg Theory

Famous quotes containing the words fast, leg and/or theory:

“Huck waited for no particulars. He sprang away and sped down the hill as fast as his legs could carry him.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any- price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)