Knee Swelling

Famous quotes containing the words knee and/or swelling:

“little snails at the back
of the knee building bon-
fires ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)