weight quotes

A false balance is abomination to the L: but a just weight is his delight.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs11:1.

   Neville Chamberlain had greatness thrust upon himand in trying to prove he could bear it, collapsed under the weight.

- David Cannadine
The Pleasure of the Past.

It often happens that a man of considerable eminence in his own profession, but without the smallest acquaintance with the fundamentals of economics, will make a suggestion which is precisely on a level with the proposition that the locomotive would be much more efficient if itsweight weretakenoffthe driving wheelsso that they could revolve more easily. The editor of an important magazineacceptswithjoy the contributionin whichhedevelopshisideas, and thepublic feebly thinks that there may be something in it, and is confirmed in this view by the fact that professional economists are as disinclined to publisha refutationof it asthe Astronomer Royal is to answer the theorists who declare that the world is flat.

- Edwin Cannan
  Wealth, ch.6.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden† And these days it is worse, with the poverty of blackness on one side and the weight of womanhood on the other.

-Tsitsi Dangarembga
  Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

Instead of using onlycomparativeWords and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course†to express myself inTerms of Number,Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.

- Sir William Petty
  Political Arithmetick.

A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift A love in desolation masked;a Power Girt round with weakness;it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;even whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 32.

My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
World withinWorld, p.77.