Seat Single Engine

Famous quotes containing the words seat, single and/or engine:

    We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanor and his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    A single monk carries his own bucket of water; two monks carry their bucket of water together; but when there are three monks, there is no water at all.
    Chinese proverb.

    There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)