Wheel Quotes
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Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
lucio russo— 4.7, "Use of Natural Power", p. 126
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
solomon— Ecclesiastes 12:6 (KJV)
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the disease.
Mahatma Gandhi— Young India, 1927
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
sarada devi— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 297.
The fundamental inability to grasp the fact that real leadership is accepting that you are merely another cog in the wheel has derailed many careers and deranged many managers.
damien richardson— City Edition, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p.5.
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real... Oh! The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountain tops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
gordon lightfoot— Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists YouTube video
Let Sporus tremble'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope— 1735 Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.305-8.
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
mario andretti— Mario Andretti - Began Racing In Italy. sports.jrank.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-12..
I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill. I could not hear the brook flow, the noisy wheel was still.
houghton, richard monckton milnes, 1st baron hough— The Brookside.
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
thomas bailey aldrich— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Two Moods.
The field of mechanical engineering is frankly as old as human life itself. Fire, the wheel, the printing press, and many of the life- changing discoveries and inventions of the past few centuries are simply applications of mechanical engineering in order to solve everyday problems.
— ?Dr. Vook Ph.D and Charles River Editors (2011) Mechanical Engineering 101: The TextVook
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill: I could not hear the brook flow. The noisy wheel was still.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, The Brookside.
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Bible (Old Testament)— Of his vision in exile. Ezekiel1:16.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34-9.
True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opensthe heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely through its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and cheerfully round.
Laurence Sterne— 1759-67 Tristram Shandy, bk.4, ch.32.
He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted.
George Moore— Vain Fortune, Chapter 2.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
— "Those who complain the most loudly or persistently, or who make the most fuss, get what they want. "
— Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. pp. 252.
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
william carlos williams— "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel? But I need, now as then, Thee, God, who mouldest men.
Robert Browning— Line 180. (Rabbi Ben Ezra)
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)
C. S. Lewis— Pilgrim’s Regress 186-187
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— J 146 (Notebook J (1789))
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 57.
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
George Canning— The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
'Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat; There's a human look in its swelling breast, And the gentle curve of its lowly crest; And I often stop with the fear I feel He runs so close to the rapid wheel.
nathaniel parker willis— Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Belfry Pigeon; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
He [God] is a magician . He simply puts the seed in his imagination –which is Prakriti, Lakshmi or Mother Goddess of the world and the universe comes into existence. the wheel of the world keeps going.
— Gita, p.123
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 Act III, Scene I
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
— Petrarch, Triumph of Eternity, line 117
"Let's face it: there are few things in this world more stupid than dancing. Except break dancing, which pirates and lumber jacks would agree is awesome. Other than that, dancing makes me envy cripples." "If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel."
— Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women.
