Foot Telescope

Famous quotes containing the words foot and/or telescope:

“In the drawing room [of the Queen’s palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid’s foot between Venus’s thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied “Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“The telescope at one end of his beat,
And at the other end the microscope....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)