Famous quotes containing the words leg and/or stand:
“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)
“I could stand whole dayfuls of it.
Wind she brews a heady kettle.
Human beings love it love it.
Gods above are not above it.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)