Winding

Famous quotes containing the word winding:

    Few, few shall part, where many meet!
    The snow shall be their winding sheet,
    And every turf, beneath their feet,
    Shall be a soldier’s sepulchre.
    Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

    Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
    Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)