Wheel Quotes
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Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
lucio russo— 4.7, "Use of Natural Power", p. 126
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.
solomon— Ecclesiastes 12:6 (KJV)
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 disease.
Mahatma Gandhi— Young India, 1927
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
sarada devi— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 297.
The fundamental inability to grasp the fact that real leadership is accepting that you are merely another cog in the wheel has derailed many careers and deranged many managers.
damien richardson— City Edition, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p.5.
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real... Oh! The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountain tops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
gordon lightfoot— Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists YouTube video
Let Sporus tremble'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope— 1735 Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.305-8.
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
mario andretti— Mario Andretti - Began Racing In Italy. sports.jrank.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-12..
I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill. I could not hear the brook flow, the noisy wheel was still.
houghton, richard monckton milnes, 1st baron hough— The Brookside.
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
thomas bailey aldrich— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Two Moods.
The field of mechanical engineering is frankly as old as human life itself. Fire, the wheel, the printing press, and many of the life- changing discoveries and inventions of the past few centuries are simply applications of mechanical engineering in order to solve everyday problems.
— ?Dr. Vook Ph.D and Charles River Editors (2011) Mechanical Engineering 101: The TextVook
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill: I could not hear the brook flow. The noisy wheel was still.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, The Brookside.
The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.
tracey emin— 2001In the Observer, 22 Apr.
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
Friedrich Engels— 1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
aesop— Hercules and the Wagoner
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
h. rider haggard— Allan Quatermain (1887), INTRODUCTION
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
pierre trudeau— Part 4, 1979 - 1984 "Welcome to the 1980's", p. 290
It's the wheel of the world - turning around.
carrie underwood— From Wheel of the World from the album Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus— Herodotus, in A. D. Godley, translator, Herodotus (1931), vol. 1, book 1, section 207, p. 261.
The wheel goes round and round, And some are up and some are on the down, And still the wheel goes round.
— Josephine Pollard, Wheel of Fortune.
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 2 (The Reluctant Dragon)
The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball; Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.
john lydgate— Bk. 9, line 1211.
But are ye sure the news is true And are ye sure he's weel? Is this a time to think o' wark? Ye jades, fling by your wheel!
william julius mickle— The Mariner's Wife (1769), st. 1
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.
— Ecclesiastes, XII. 6. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act I, scene 2, line 34.
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 297.
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings, Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
— Richard Gifford, Contemplation. Samuel Johnson altered the second line to: "All at her work the village maiden sings"; and in the third line substituted "while for "as".
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
benjamin disraeli— Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion (1880), Chapter LXX; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
