Quotes of Wheel - somelinesforyou

“ I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ”

- Billy Connolly

“ What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. ”

- Bible

“ Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. ”

- Claude D. Pepper

“ Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. ”

- Gail Porter

“ Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.". ”

- Robert X. Cringely

“ A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ”

- Ouida

“ I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round. ”

- Josephine Pollard

“ Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ”

- Deborah Tannen

“ I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. ”

- Joseph Newcomer

“ Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. ”

- Seneca

“ Desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through. ”

- Starhawk

“ Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ”

- William Faulkner

“ The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. ”

- Vic Gold

“ Put your shoulder to the wheel. ”

- Aesop

“ Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. ”

- Juvenal

“ Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness. ”

- Geoffrey Neighor

“ Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. ”

- Bible

“ All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. ”

- Unknown

“ Be near me when my light is low… And all the wheels of Being slow. ”

- Tennyson Alfred

“ so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. ”

- William Carlos Williams

“ America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel. ”

- Frank Dane

“ Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ”

- Horace Mann
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