Feet Long

Famous quotes containing the words feet and/or long:

    There are those who never burn incense when things are going well, but then throw themselves at the Buddha’s feet when crises come.
    Chinese proverb.

    In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)