Overshot Water Wheels

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

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

    It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile! He rounded this water with his hand, deepened and clarified it in his thought, and in his will bequeathed it to Concord. I see by its face that it is visited by the same reflection; and I can almost say, Walden, is it you?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Be near me when my light is low,
    When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
    And tingle; and the heart is sick,
    And all the wheels of Being slow.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)