Water Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:

“The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

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