Archimedes Quote by Mikhail Lermontov

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

— Mikhail Lermontov

“Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes”

— Archimedes

“Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth.”

— Archimedes

“All that on earth hath life and breath To earth must fall before his spear, And sorrow, saved alone from death, Inscribes above the…

— August Strindberg

“The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity”

— Ecclesiastes 7:5

“How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel…

— Anthony Esolen

“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth”

— Archimedes

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— Catherynne M. Valente

“He may have to bring us to the sad realization that everything we have done apart from him is vanity,”

— Russell M. Stendal

“There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great…

— Anne Lamott

“It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high...It is vanity, to love that which quickly passeth away and…

— Thomas à Kempis