Ancient Silk Road

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:

    “Therefore it was surprising that, as we kept the newspapers from
    Mother,
    She died feeling responsible for a disaster unverified,
    Murmuring, in her sleep as it seemed, the ancient slogan
    Noblesse oblige.”
    —Josephine Miles (1911–1985)

    “O bid me mount and sail up there
    Amid the cloudy wrack,
    For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
    That had so straight a back,
    Are gone away, and some that stay
    Have changed their silk for sack.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “How can I go on, I cannot. Oh just let me flop down flat on the road like a big fat jelly out of bowl and never move again!”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)