Root Beer Float

Famous quotes containing the words root, beer and/or float:

    “A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “Now your beer belly hangs outlike Fatso.
    You are popping your buttons and expelling gas.
    How can I lie down with you, my comical beau
    when you are so middle-aged and lower-class.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to
    the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
    They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
    They do not think whom they souse with spray.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)