"Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again."
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"The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you."
"Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!"
"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round."
"In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."
"Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel."
"Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'."
"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance."
"I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!"
"Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!"
"You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels."
"Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation."
"I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt."
"To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist."
"The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right."
"Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan."
"Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves."
"If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel."
"If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel."
"Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation."