Famous quotes containing the words leg and/or spinner:
“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)
“Till the Spinner of the Years
Said “Now!” And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)