millstone quotes

And whoso shall receive onesuch little child in my name receiveth me.But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew18:5^6.

And a mightyangel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation18:21.

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

- Germaine Greer
  The Female Eunuch,'Body: Curves'.

   Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

- Colin MacInnes
England, Half English,'England, Half English'.