Small Joints

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or joints:

“If I’m not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)