| "You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." »James Corbett |
| "Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts." »Jean Cocteau |
| "But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." »Charles Dickens |
| "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 |
| "The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." »Jean Kerr |
| "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 |
| "Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so." »Mark Twain |
| "You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." »Ethel Barrymore |
| "If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before." »Mitchell Burgess |
| "When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out." »Manley E. Rogers |
| "I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day" »David Grayson |
| "The only way round is through." »Robert Frost |
| "Round numbers are always false." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff |
| "There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain |
| "The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road." »Karen Blixen |
| "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." »George Baker |
| "Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead." »Tommy Bolt |
| "When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides." »Wayne W Dyer |
| "The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost." »Confucius |
| "The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges Behind you, is that the world is round.." »Unknown |
| "Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner." »Douglas Adams |
| "Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "God made the world round, to teach us , its not always wrong to reach right where we started" »Siddharth Astir |
| "Life, like a merry-go-round, may make you dizzy but you have to hold on even in the hardest of times" »Alishia May |
| "Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark." »Mary Stewart |
| "For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go." »Omar Khayym |
| "Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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