Wheels Quotes - Page 6
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Historia, XXVI. 8, 1922.
William Wordsworth (2014). “The Excursion and The Recluse”, p.34, Lulu.com
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.11, University of Michigan Press
Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)”
Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.63, Random House
Song: Words Are Your Wheels
Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.244, Macmillan
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.20
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.229, Grove Press
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.225, John Wiley & Sons