When the Wife of Hector, in Homer's Iliads [sic], discourses with her Husband about the Battel [sic] in which he was going to enga...ge, the Hero, desiring her to leave that Matter to his Care, bids her go to her Maids and mind her Spinning: By which the Poet intimates, that Men and Women ought to busie themselves in their proper Spheres, and on such Matters only as are suitable to their respective Sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention.... A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew th...is, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The rest...oration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, in...stead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these t...hings, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.... 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Reason is an exception in me, too," said Zarathustra: "Chaos and necessity and spinning stars--that is also the rule in the wises...t world."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »