Overshot Wheels

Famous quotes containing the words overshot and/or wheels:

“With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)