Mechanical Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words mechanical and/or clocks:

    “There is only one evil, to deny life
    As Rome denied Etruria
    And mechanical America Montezuma still.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Weighing the steadfastness and state
    Of some mean things which here below reside,
    Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date
    And intercourse of times divide,”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)