Quotes of Shaft - somelinesforyou

“ The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom — they are the pillars of society. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world. ”

- Unknown

“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. ”

- Christopher Plummer

“ The true Axis of Evil in America is the genius of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. ”

- Bill Maher

“ And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream. ”

- John Milton

“ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! ”

- Herman Melville

“ ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world. ”

- Unknown

“ I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. ”

- Truman Capote

“ That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. ”

- Edmund Waller

“ The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft. ”

- Thomas J. Cottle

“ Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death. ”

- Scottish Clock Motto

“ O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. ”

- Aesop

“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”

- Patrick White

“ This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more. ”

- Geoffrey Rush

“ Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so — exceptin' always steam, From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God — Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. ”

- Joseph Newcomer
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