Weight Shift

Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or shift:

    The weight of its body
    cleverly suspended
    by its own wings,
    the bee
    sips at the bud
    of the night-blooming jasmine,
    opening it,
    greedy for its juice.
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)