Observatory Master Clock

Famous quotes containing the words observatory, master and/or clock:

    “Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
    They’ll tell the clock to any business that
    We say befits the hour.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)