Young Snails

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or snails:

“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed: the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

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