Trailing Spokes

Famous quotes containing the words trailing and/or spokes:

“As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)