Put his shoulder to the wheel. [ Burton ]
For fortune's wheel is on the turn.
And some go up and some go down. [ Mary F. Tucker ]
You make as good music as a wheel-barrow. [ Proverb ]
Here I lie, and no wonder I am dead,
For the wheel of a wagon went over my head. [ Miscellaneous epitaph ]
Like clocks, one wheel another on must drive,
Affairs by diligent labors only thrive. [ Chapman ]
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. [ William Shakespeare ]
Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round
Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make
The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly
Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone
Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. [ Lewis Morris ]
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
It is the master-wheel which makes the mill go round. [ Proverb ]
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
The wheel of time rolls downward through various changes. [ Silius Italicus ]
The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest. [ Proverb ]
Her hands are on the wheel, but her eyes are in the street. [ Proverb ]
A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others. [ Proverb ]
Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? [ Carlyle ]
One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but everything else in this world. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost? [ Confucius ]
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. [ J. G. Holland ]
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!
We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]