Straight Bounding Sides

Famous quotes containing the words straight, bounding and/or sides:

“A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I fell her finger light
Laid pausefully upon life’s headlong train;—
The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew,
The heart less bounding at emotion new,
And hope, once crush’d, less quick to spring again.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“From behind the red gates comes the stink of wine and meat, while along the road sides lie the bones of the frozen dead.”
—Chinese proverb.