Overshot Wheel

Famous quotes containing the words overshot and/or wheel:

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

“Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior ... most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.”
—Ralph Harper (b. 1915)