Feet Quote by Benvenuto Cellini Download Open image “Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.” — Benvenuto Cellini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feet Firm Fortune Stand firm Turns Virtue Virtues Wealth Wheel of fortune Wheels
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“The wheel of Fortune turns one way and another, taking us to the heights or the depths. That is the great wheel on which… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
“My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill That… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins. — J. R. Celski Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
