Drilled Wells

Famous quotes containing the words drilled and/or wells:

    “I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)