Quotes of Extremity - somelinesforyou

“ You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. ”

- Charles Kettering

“ With his venomirresistibleand bittersweetthat loosenerof limbs, Lovereptile-likestrikes me down. ”

- Sappho

“ The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. ”

- Unknown

“ Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ”

- Frank Scully

“ There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. ”

- Ruth Ross

“ There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it's what we do with them that's important. ”

- Ruth Ross

“ If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. ”

- Will Rogers

“ I've heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest sea, Yet never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ”

- John Flavel

“ Extremity of philosophy is hurtful. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity. ”

- Colonel Morgan

“ The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails — aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. ”

- Thomas Arnold
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