lean quotes

And like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
'TheWaning Moon' (published1824).

You might as well fall flat onyour face as leanover toofar backward.

-James Grover Thurber
  'The BearWho Let It Alone', in the NewYorker, 29 Apr.