Famous quotes containing the words left and/or leg:
“Even by noon
of the very first day,
she’d etched the wall
with lines, counting
he left today,
he left today,
he left today.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)