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)

    “We heard of all your gain when you had gone,
    And talked about it when the meal lay done....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)