Ancient Silk Road

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

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)