Legs Played June

Famous quotes containing the words legs, played and/or june:

    “Their legs long, delicate and slender, aquamarine their eyes,
    Magical unicorns bear ladies on their backs.
    The ladies close their musing eyes. No prophecies,
    Remembered out of Babylonian almanacs,
    Have closed the ladies’ eyes, their minds are but a pool
    Where even longing drowns under its own excess....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “They played the eloquent tum-tum,
    And lived on scalps served up in rum—
    The only sauce they knew.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ...”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)