“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) American photographer
Alfred Stieglitz (1887), in the American Annual of Photography 1897.
“On his last legs.”
The Old Law (1618-19), Act v. Sc. 1.
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English playwright and poet 1580–1627Related quotes
“A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“His upper half was hidden from me, I knew best his legs.”
John Updike book The Centaur
The Centaur (1963)
Context: I miss only, and then only a little, in the late afternoon, the sudden white laughter that like heat lightning bursts in an atmosphere where souls are trying to serve the impossible. My father for all his mourning moved in the atmosphere of such laughter. He would have puzzled you. He puzzled me. His upper half was hidden from me, I knew best his legs.
“He just didn't quite get his leg over.”
Jonathan Agnew (1960) cricketer
Commentating on Ian Botham trying but failing to step over the stumps
[The Wit of Cricket, Barry, Johnston, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ygNa9iKqu2oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22jonathan+agnew%22+stewart+test&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=He%20just%20didn't%20quite%20get%20his%20leg%20over!&f=false, Hodder & Stoughton, 9781444715026]
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto XXVIII, lines 25–27 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"Recalling War," lines 1–6, from Collected Poems 1938 (1938).
Poems
“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Long-Legged Fly http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1525/, refrain <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)