Famous quotes containing the words foot and/or spot:
“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“But money, wife, is the true Fullers Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.”
—John Gay (16851732)
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