A Quote by Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

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Fortune Himself Incessantly Round Say Shall Today Turns Wheel Wheel Of Fortune

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

Charles Mackay

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.

Charles Cowden Clarke

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

Hafez

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Benvenuto Cellini

Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.

Jamie Hyneman

The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.

Anthony Lawlor

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Marie de France

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

Henri Poincare

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.

Kurt Braunohler

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

Josephine Pollard

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

Anita Desai

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

Robert Bly

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.