Grease Quotes
Calvin Trillin (2011). “Trillin on Texas”, p.1, University of Texas Press
Carlos Fuentes (2007). “The Eagle's Throne: A Novel”, p.37, Random House
"The Kicker" (ca. 1870).This citation is traditional among quotation dictionaries, but it must be noted that no Billings poem called "The Kicker" or with words like these has ever been veri?ed.The earliest documented version appears in the Wall Street Journal, 20 May 1910: "The wheel that squeaks the loudest / Is the wheel that gets the grease." The saying is now proverbial, often with a form like "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
"For the Union Dead" l. 65 (1964)
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.29, Vintage
Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.396, Ballantine Books