Crankcase Quotes & Sayings

What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and put it into your crankcase? That fine engine would soon be a mess, unable to do what you want it to do. — David J. Schwartz

Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people. — James Miller

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... ] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories. — Seneca The Younger

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. — Kin Hubbard

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. — E.B. White

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth — Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. — William Whewell

Our democracy is of no use to those who have not been educated to it. Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it. — Sylvia Plath

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted. — Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension. — Cornelius Plantinga