Water Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:

“Instead of water we got here a draught of beer,... a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,—which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)