Overshot Water Wheels

Famous quotes containing the words overshot, water and/or wheels:

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

    Eternal Venice sinking by degrees
    Into the very water that she lights;
    Edgar Bowers (b. 1924)

    You utilitarians, you too love everything useful only as a vehicle of your inclinations—you too really find the noise of its wheels intolerable?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)