A Quote by John Vanbrugh

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

John Vanbrugh

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Aces Apt Chariot Four Gentlemen Only Order Out Roll Wheel Whose

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John Vanbrugh
English - Architect
January 24, 1664 - March 26, 1726

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

Ambrose Bierce

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

Charles Churchill

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

Anacreon

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

Aesop

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

W. C. Fields

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Francis Bacon

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Mark Twain

Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.

Ernest Sosa

I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

William Blake

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

Paul Frank Baer

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Desmond Dekker

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.