Knee Joint

Famous quotes containing the words knee joint, knee and/or joint:

“He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens his knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill- shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)