Feet Optical Base

Famous quotes containing the words feet, optical and/or base:

“There are those who never burn incense when things are going well, but then throw themselves at the Buddha’s feet when crises come.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“Your top has sunk too low,
Your base has spread too wide,
For you to roll one stone
Down if you tried.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)