Action Quote by Francis Bacon

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

— Aesop

I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot…

— Francis Bacon

“That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick, though in…

— Marilynne Robinson

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way…

— Mark Strand

“Hester shook her head. 'Don't confuse what you do with who you are, dearie. Besides, there's no shame in humble work. Why, Aesop himself,…

— Jonathan Auxier

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

“The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and…

— Alan Garner

“See in the mind’s eye wind blowing chaff on ancient threshing floors when men with fans toss up the trodden sheaves, and yellow-haired Demeter,…

— Homer

“We have a long distance to travel,' said the Angel of Death to our friend Gil, as soon as they had left the Villa.…

— Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

“In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood…

— Porphyry

There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness…

— Maria McCann

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

— Adela Florence Nicolson