Drop Foot

Famous quotes containing the words drop and/or foot:

“The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough;
The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,
Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)

“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”
—William James (1842–1910)