Oil Firm

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or firm:

    “Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
    Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
    But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
    She’s constant only in inconstancy.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)