Famous quotes containing the words foot and/or levers:
“All my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay,
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)