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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

– Hoshang N. Akhtar

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

– Sybil Adelman

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

– William Sherman Pene du Bois

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

– Richard Kehl

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

– J & A Foundation

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.

– H. L. Mencken

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

– Bertolt Brecht

Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If it had got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies, but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. (commenting on Chinese eating habits at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund coference)

– Prince Phillip

It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.

– Charles Dickens

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

– James Grover Thurber

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)

– Mao Zedong

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

– Ronald Reagan

There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

– Diana Nyad

To be pessimist is to amputate one’s own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

– Mehmet Murat ildan

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

– Hazrat Inayat Khan

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

– Max Beerbohm

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