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fulcrum

«Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.»
Author: Archimedes | Keywords: fulcrum, lever, levers
«There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.»
Author: John Fowles | Keywords: fulcrum
«YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! --Polydore Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: Archimedes, assassin, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, Cassandra, clover, clovers, delivering, endowing, figs, fulcrum, Golden Age, homer, silken, snore, snores, snoring, The Golden Age, thistle, thistles, whistles
«The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel | Keywords: fatalities, fatality, fulcrum, Liberty Or Death, represents, that is to say
«The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: Archimedes, fulcrum, lever, levers
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