“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”
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Preface.
The Fountain of Age (1993)
Context: What had really caused the women’s movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women’s life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn’t live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was “the problem that had no name.” Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.
“And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 276)
“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
Usenet
“You always expect a sheep to have five legs.”
Act II., Scene V. — (M. Bovina).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 259.
La Trinuzia (published 1549)
“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146 (Part the Third, 1840).
1840s
“She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.”
Source: The Thing Around Your Neck