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“And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.”

World Support Four Design Humorous Essence Tables Legs Surface Planes Laboratory Vertical Horizontal

Author:Michael Frayn

“There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.”

Four Legs Blanket

Author:Robertson Davies

“I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.”

Walks Break Four Boxes Legs Theatre Alarms Oaks Coffins

Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky

“The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.”

Has Beens Language Strong Sex Moral Four Influence Movement Responsible Legs Manners Nerves Occupation Weekend Bicycle Cycling Digestion Good Digestion Strong Legs

Author:John Galsworthy

“When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.”

Writing Children Literature Fiction Four Needed Comfortable Legs Genre Height Chairs Length

Author:Mark Haddon

“A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]”

Four Horse Legs

Author:George Herbert

“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”

Eye Running Moving Form Careers Four Movement Objects All Things Accounts Horse Twenties Mad Legs Disappear Rapids Vibrations Profile

Author:Giacomo Balla

“Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor”

Children Law Parent Break Four Couple Tables Legs Crash In-laws

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.”

People Home Night Next House Party Four Special Tvs Green Series Shoes Clubs Legs Ridiculous Next Day All Night Wraps Tv Series

Author:Amelia Warner

“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.”

Men Firsts Bits Technology Pieces Four Rocks Century Balance Twenties Tables Caught Legs Welcome Restaurants Devices Back And Forth Nineteenth Century One Piece

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.”

Two Reason Character Interesting Four Perfection Instinct Legs Pairs Meanness Interesting Characters

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.”

Three Greater Four Talent Tables Legs Instability Three Legs

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

Ifs Thinking Should Doe Answers Forget Issues Four Dog Calling Management Legs Managers Never Forget Tails Abraham Accounting Riddle

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and down four flights of stairs at 5 am to practice my turns in front of the candle light when others are asleep. I felt like that I had climbed many tall mountains and made so many impossible dreams come true through sheer determination, perseverance, passion, self conviction and belief.”

“I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic.”

Looks May Three Bits Four Personality Taste Legs Fantastic Carrots

Author:William Katt

“It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.”

Firsts Long Matter Four Tables Legs Finished

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.”

Three Found Four Week Effects Legs Consistently Pilates

Author:Samaire Armstrong

“Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.”

Dies Black Four Advice Legs Snow Jumping Poodles

Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into the supermarket and get 12 drumsticks. Years ago you couldn't do that. So I was sucking on the neck for two years. My mother told me it was the leg, and I believed it. I went to my father and said, Why is my leg always cockeyed? He said, The bird has arthritis.”

Years Wells Said Two Kids Today Wanted Remember Mother Father Four Bird Years Ago Legs Necks Two Years Supermarkets Arthritis Drumsticks

Author:Pat Cooper