porch quotes

You let a bully come into your front yard, and the next day he'll be on your porch.

- Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
  In Time,  Apr.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

- Bert Lance
  Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct. US  newspaper  columnist  and 'agony  aunt',  who  offered  advice and information on  topics  such  as  family  life,  marriage,  social issues and health.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And hewhistled, andshouted, and called thembyname; 'Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!'

- Clement Moore
  The Night Before Christmas.

Pale, beyond porch and portal, Crowned with calm leaves, she stands Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Ballads,'The Garden of Proserpine'.