You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
American Proverb
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ELBERT HUBBARD I'm a triangular peg in a square and round hole world
JIM MCLAUGHLIN So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole.
LORETTA YOUNG This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'l...
PAUL GIAMATTI This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I...
PAUL GIAMATTI You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p...
ANDREW BIRD A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just c...
PEARL ZHU If a square peg doesn’t fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two pe...
JEFFREY BRYANT They say "the taste of the pudding is in the eating," but that doesn't apply to "a square peg in a r...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole i...
PAUL COLLINS Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect ...
LINDI ORTEGA That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
MICK RALPHS You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a...
RAY LIOTTA A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his s...
MARK TWAIN At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly de...
EMILY WEISS I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round...
ALISON MOYET You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. Yo...
CHERYL LADD Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit int...
FREDRIK BACKMAN As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they ...
SAM GRAVES Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just dif...
SOL LUCKMAN We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into th...
SYDNEY SMITH Unless the hole is MEANT to be square,' I said with a sudden erudition that surprised me, 'in which ...
JASPER FFORDE A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues ...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE Carve the peg by looking at the hole
KOREAN PROVERB Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean sa...
ALAN BRENNERT It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE But if the hole is big enough, the square peg goes through. This is definitely a first-time thing fo...
BILLY HURLEY They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
WILLIE STARGELL Why is ground round sold in a square package?
NEIL LECKMAN ...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round ho...
THOMAS HARDY The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and t...
BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY A successful library serves the immediate needs of the community. You can't fit a square in a circle...
GENE COPPOLA To be the square sales peg, start with your title. It’s the first thing people want to know about ...
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Never go for a drink in London's square mile, nobody ever gets a round in.
BENNY BELLAMACINA You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting."
"I love round tables," said...
CASSANDRA CLARE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Square meals often make round people.
E. JOSEPH COSSMAN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER It is easier to square the circle than to get round a
mathematician.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN you cant win in life if you cant fail
VITA NEDERLOE Except for the 10th hole, I played a flawless round. It felt like a walk in the park.
STEPHEN AMES He had a four putt on one hole, which ruined his round.
CASSIE DESMONE A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Square box, round pizza, triangle slices, now that's confusing.
ANONYMOUS That hole in the side of the Cole was actually a hole in the chest and the heart of the American peo...
WILLIAM S. COHEN A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS Why do you eat? Why to sleep? If you cant be a trustworthy person, cant be a true lover, cant be a g...
WRITER GRADED I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square."
Magnus, pg. 137
CASSANDRA CLARE Amidst a sea of company men and women I struggle in vain attempts to fit my triangular mind into a s...
TAMARA AW When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER You cant spill a drip, just like you cant drop drops, you can only drop drips and spill drops.
EVAN HEHEMANN I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Well when you cant sleep well you cant dream and when you cant dream well whats life mean
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD You can peg a lot of the decisions on that caucus.
STEVEN MACKINNON There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
JEANETTE WINTERSON A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
JOSH BILLINGS Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, squar...
BIBLE What you cant forget... God cant remember!
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You loo...
MARK TWAIN You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
MICHAEL PARENTI You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. We didn't want to be in a hole in the last round, but we really stepped up in a lot of places. Those...
MARK REILAND Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne...
F. CALVIN PARKER Through wisdom your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life…
By wisdom ...
ANONYMOUS That's our goal, but it's a soft date, because we're dealing with people and sometimes people don't ...
GLENN LOCKWOOD Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next.
ERIC GREEN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
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