Lean

Famous quotes containing the word lean:

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)