Souviens-toi que leTemps est un joueur avide Qui gagne sans tricher, a'   tout coup! c'est la loi. Remember! Time, that tireless gambler, wins on every turn of the wheel: that is the law.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Horloge' (translated by Richard Howard,1982).

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes12:1^7.

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Of his vision in exile. Ezekiel1:16.

Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game ofchance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

-Capote,Truman
  In Cold Blood, ch.4.

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.4,'Death by Water'.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

-Engels, Friedrich
  The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the†disease.

-[great soul]
  Speech,13 Oct.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Howl and Other Poems,'America'.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

-Mandeville, Bernard
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.

-Marinetti, Emilio FilippoTomasso
  Manifesto of Futurism. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy:  A Modern History (1959), p.270.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Sea Fever'.

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 6, stanza1.

True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opensthe heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely through its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and cheerfully round.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.4, ch.32.

   Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sundayafternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  A Child's Christmas inWales.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

-Williams,William Carlos
  Spring and All,'The RedWheelbarrow'.