Snails Lay Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words snails, lay and/or eggs:

“little snails at the back
of the knee building bon-
fires ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a “weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)