Wheels Proverbs

Sayings on Wheels

Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart. ~ Japanese Proverb

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 Proverb
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 Proverb

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 Proverb

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