Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

“A wife’s long tongue is the stairway by which misfortunes ascend into the house.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,—all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)