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"Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts." »Jean Cocteau
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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." »James Corbett
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"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
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"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist." »Arabic Proverb
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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]" »Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
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"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed. (on a state visit to China)" »Prince Phillip
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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on." »William Shakespeare
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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on." »William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
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"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides." »Harry S Truman
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"The only way round is through." »Robert Frost
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"In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding." »Charles Baudelaire
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"The world is round; it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Round numbers are always false." »Samuel Johnson
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"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." »George Baker
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"The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road." »Karen Blixen
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"When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides." »Wayne W Dyer
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"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"If you take flight from responsibility, please by a round-trip ticket because you will end up where you are now." »Chuck Sanderson
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"Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead." »Tommy Bolt
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"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." »William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
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"The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost." »Confucius
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"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges Behind you, is that the world is round.." »Unknown
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"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner." »Douglas Adams
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