Leap

Famous quotes containing the word leap:

    Our enemies have beat us to the pit.
    It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
    Than tarry till they push us.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Many a time I have seen my mother leap up from the dinner table to engage the swarming flies with an improvised punkah, and heard her rejoice and give humble thanks simultaneously that Baltimore was not the sinkhole that Washington was.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.
    Clifton Fadiman (b. 1904)