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"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere." »J & A Foundation
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"Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed." »Hoshang N. Akhtar
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"The first time I saw Elvis - He put rhythm in my legs." »Johnny Wowk
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"We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"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
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"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
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"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong
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"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
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"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
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"Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed." »Buddha
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"So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified." »Carl Van Vechten
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"Even a blockhead may respect inspire, So long as he is suitably attired; A fool may gain esteem among the wise, So long as he has sense to hold his tongue." »The Hitopadesa
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"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
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"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago." »Kipling
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"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago." »Rudyard Kipling
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"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten
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"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
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"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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