Life Saving Clubs

Famous quotes containing the words life, saving and/or clubs:

    “They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
    They pursued it with forks and hope;
    They threatened its life with a railway-share
    They charmed it with smiles and soap.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “As night returns bringing doubts
    That swarm around the sleeper’s head
    But are fended off with clubs and knives ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)