Water Torture Cell

Famous quotes containing the words water, torture and/or cell:

    When people are true friends, even shared water tastes sweet.
    Chinese proverb.

    It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.
    Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,—
    They treated nature as they would.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)