Famous quotes containing the words whirligig and/or world:
“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But Nature is no sentimentalist,—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)