Quotes with leg--that

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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Abraham Lincoln How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Brad Bird If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Henry Ford Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Beau Mirchoff When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
    Beau Mirchoff
    Canadian-American actor (1989 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
    Recollections of the Civil War (1898) door C.A. Dana
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Billy Sunday Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist You used to be taught to let the ball go as far as possible and then drop it on the runner, whereas now it might be even more advantageous to direct the ball in front of the bag and get the guy on the leg.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Adam Smith “If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part II (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Fuller A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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