Famous quotes containing the word winding:
“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)
“Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)