Sayings on Wheels
Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart. ~ Japanese Proverbs
God will help a seaman in a storm but the pilot must still remain at the wheel. ~ German Proverb
The world is a wheel and men are the felloes, and the devil prowling around spins. ~ Maltese Proverbs
A wheel that turns gathers no rust. ~ Greek Proverbs
It’s tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.~ Traditional Proverb
Badly oiled wheels will squeak. ~ Russian Proverbs
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
A lawyer and a wagon wheel must be well greased. ~ German Proverbs
Quotations about Wheels
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. ~ Will Rogers
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. ~ Philip Emeagwali
The wheel is come full circle.~ William Shakespeare
Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly. ~ Quentin Blake
There’s nothing worse than taking something into your head: it turns into a revolving wheel that you can’t control. ~ Ugo Betti
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~ Ouida
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel. ~ Ivan Turgenev
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. ~ Dante Alighieri
Men’s fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ~ Herodotus
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, “I shall today be uppermost. ~ Confucius
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ~ Robert Burton
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
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. ~ Martin Luther
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin, electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system. ~ Marshall McLuhan
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. ~ Terry Waite
The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels. ~ Barbara Corcoran
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. ~ Stephen Hawking
The squeaky wheel doesn’t always get greased; it often gets replaced. ~ John Peers
The trouble is that too often there is forty horsepower under the bonnet and one asspower at the wheel. ~ John MacNaughton
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ~ Dale Turner
Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom. ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Fortune’s wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. ~ Maria Edgeworth