Squeaky Wheel Quotes

• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

  Josh Billings

  Business, Grease, Complaining

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• The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Oil, Complaining, May

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• The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ducks, Competition, Grease

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• I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

  Josh Billings

  Hate, Long, Grease

  "The Kicker" (ca. 1870).This citation is traditional among quotation dictionaries, but it must be noted that no Billings poem called "The Kicker" or with words like these has ever been veri?ed.The earliest documented version appears in the Wall Street Journal, 20 May 1910: "The wheel that squeaks the loudest / Is the wheel that gets the grease." The saying is now proverbial, often with a form like "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."

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• What you see is what you get.

  Flip Wilson

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.

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• The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

  John Peers

  Peers, Wheels, Replaced

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• You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.

  Otep Shamaya

  Thinking, Speaks Out, Oil

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• We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.

  Tim Gunn

  Grease, Doe, Needs

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• I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

  Larry Wall

  Brain, Mind, Wheels

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  Rachel Nichols

  Shopping, Luck, Wheels

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