Legs Played June

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

    “The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)

    “Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
    When June is past, the fading rose;
    For in your beauty’s orient deep
    These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

    Ask me no more whither do stray
    The golden atoms of the day;
    For in pure love heaven did prepare
    Those powders to enrich your hair.”
    —Thomas Carew (1589–1639)