A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his ha...nd, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 l...eg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we walked along the Strand to-night, arm in arm, a woman of the town accosted us, in the usual enticing manner. "No, no, my gir...l, (said Johnson) it won't do."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on oursel...ves and choosing the comfortable paths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Linda, you are leaving your old body now.... It lies flat, an old butterfly, all arm, all leg, all wing, loose as an old dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »