Famous quotes containing the words snails, lay and/or eggs:
“little snails at the back
of the knee building bon-
fires ...”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Were you but lying cold and dead,
And lights were paling out of the West,
You would come hither, and bend your head,
And I would lay my head on your breast....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“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 (18581919)