Weight Machines

Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or machines:

“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)