Cricket, like the novel, isgreat when it presents men in the round, when it shows the salty quality of human nature.

-Aristotle
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The thought of him has always slightly irritated me.Of course he was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  Of  William Morris. Letter to Sam Behrman, Feb.

It is not easy nowadays to remember anything so contrary to all appearances as that officials are the servants of the public; and the official must try not to foster the illusion that it is the other way round.

-Gowers, Sir Ernest Arthur
  Plain Words, ch.3.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day likea football, and it will be round and full at evening.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.5.

I can teach it round or flat.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
When asked by a school board about the shape of the earth. Quoted in Tom Wicker One of Us (1991).

   And so kyng Lodgreaunce delyverd hys doughtir Gwenyver unto Merlion, and theTable Rounde.

-Malory, SirThomas   d.1471
c.1470  Morte d'Arthur, bk.3, ch.1.

Those trains will run over their tails, if they can, Snorting and sporting like porpoises. Flee The burly, the whirligig wheels of the train, As round as the world and as large again.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Mariner Man'.

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

-Skirving, Adam
  Five Bells, title poem.The poem was written as an elegy for Joe Lynch, a friend who fell overboard from a Sydney ferry.

As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

-Speke,John Hanning
  In Karagwe, west of LakeVictoria, among the Galla people. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

I placed a jar inTennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Anecdote of theJar'.

When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by meöeven as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!

-Wordsworth,William
  'Influence of Natural Objects', l.53^60 (published in The Friend 28 Dec1809).