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)