Fast Leg Theory

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

    Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Which is more important to you, your field or your children?” the department head asked. She replied, “That’s like asking me if I could walk better if you amputated my right leg or my left leg.”
    —Anonymous Parent. As quoted in Women and the Work Family Dilemma, by Deborah J. Swiss and Judith P. Walker, ch. 2 (1993)

    Psychotherapy—The theory that the patient will probably get well anyway, and is certainly a damned ijjit.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)