Lean Quotes

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. (James Thurber)
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. View quote
Edmund Burke
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. View quote
Washington Irving
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. View quote
Laurence Sterne
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance. View quote
Benito Mussolini
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion. View quote
Clarence Darrow
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. View quote
Robert Burton
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave Such end true lovers have. View quote
William Blake
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. (Orison Swett Marden)
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. View quote
Denis Waitley
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. View quote
Deborah Bull
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large. View quote
Edwin Moses
Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now. View quote
Greta Scacchi
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. View quote
William Ames
I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while! View quote
Tiger Woods
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not. View quote
John Donne
A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. (Jack Kerouac)
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. View quote
Jack Kerouac
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point. View quote
David Lynch
We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.... You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100, I'll still be doing pin-ups. View quote
Jayne Mansfield