Famous quotes containing the words overshot, water and/or wheels:
“With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
““... You ought to have seen how it looked in the rain,
The fruit mixed with water in layers of leaves,
Like two kinds of jewels, a vision for thieves.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least in a poor country like Russia—and his vanity begins to swell out like his tyres. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)