“My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.” DoneFactsYoungOrderFallPiecesTreeInformationBrotherArmsProveStandingDiedAbsolutesMy FavoriteLegsLimbsProve ItSlothEmilyCharlotteArms And LegsTree Limbs Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.” IfsMenPersonsChoicesFallHouseCausesEnemyHe ManBrokenArmsMembersStandingLegsBurningBrokeMisfortunesJumpingLimbsBurning HouseStanding Down Author:Isaac Deutscher
“War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.” IfsKnowsMenWarDiesFallLostPoorSafeSafetyLimbsEndeavour Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.” WorldShouldLongUseLastsAmericaFallDutyDemandSlaveTongueChainsPensLimbs Author:William Wells Brown
“O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.” NeedsFirstsMayGodJoyFallFeltLove YouCreationSonPleaseEternalSalvationSakeDawnLimbsYour Son Author:Hildegard of Bingen