Quotes of Spindle - somelinesforyou

“ A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ”

- George Herbert

“ 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

“ Education is so important when it comes to domesticity. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows. ”

- Erma Bombeck
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