Famous quotes containing the words leg and/or stand:
“Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump-thump-thump of a hound’s leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound’s salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“She can’t stand nudity in a picture, but she has a mighty love for it in the flesh.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)