Agility
If not to evade responsibility?
—Ogden Nash
Agility or nimbleness is an ability to change the body's position quickly and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance.
Quotes
[edit]- Youth is nimble, Age is lame;
- Anonymous, "Crabbed Age and Youth"
- The Passionate Pilgrim (1599)
- A Lustie wench as nimble as an Eele,
Would give a Gallant leave to kisse and feele,- John Taylor, "Epigram", in Works (1630)
- “Many games,” said old Iagoo,
“Many games of skill and hazard
Have I seen in different nations,
Have I played in different countries.
He who plays with old Iagoo
Must have very nimble fingers;
Though you think yourself so skilful,
I can beat you, Pau-Puk-Keewis,
I can even give you lessons
In your game of Bowl and Counters!”- Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part XVI
- Girl! nimble with thy feet, not with thy hands!
Curl’d minion, dancer, coiner of sweet words!- Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum (1853)
- Why did the Lord give us agility
If not to evade responsibility?- Ogden Nash, "Common Sense", in Hard Lines (1931), p. 85
