
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest
Is the one that gets the grease.”
The Kicker
As quoted in "Comes Spake the Cuckoo" the Far Gone interview (13 September 1992) http://www.intrepidtrips.com/kesey/fahey.html by Todd Brendan Fahey http://www.fargonebooks.com/bio.html
Context: Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking, 'cause that's where he works. He knows that area of the mind and the brain, and he knows the difference between the two areas. He's a real master at getting your old wheel squeaking again. … When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew that we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. It is still largely unexplored and uncharted. People like Leary have done the best they can to chart it sort of underground, but the government and the powers do not want this world charted, because it threatens established powers. It always has.
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest
Is the one that gets the grease.”
The Kicker
The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires (2001), Conclusion : Success Is Predictable, p. 63
Context: You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
Vain Fortune, Chapter 2.
“The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.”
“The Forest is Crying”, p. 44 (quoting Pat Cadigan)
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
“Put your shoulder to the wheel.”
Hercules and the Wagoner.