Fast Leg Theory

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

    The wand is will; thou, fancy, saddle art,
    Girt fast by memory; and while I spur
    My horse, he spurs with sharp desire my heart;
    Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump-thump-thump of a hound’s leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound’s salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)