Liable

Famous quotes containing the word liable:

    “You know, if this is Venus, or some other strange planet, we’re liable to run into some high-domed characters with green blood in their veins who’ll blast at us with their atomic death rayguns, and there we’ll be with these—these poor old-fashioned shootin’ irons.”
    —Edward L. Bernds (b. 1911)

    “they are brown and soft,
    And liable to melt as snow.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Would he were fatter! But I fear him not.
    Yet if my name were liable to fear,
    I do not know the man I should avoid
    So soon as that spare Cassius.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)