Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:
“In ancient timestwas no great loss
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!I sayt with grief
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour, from Aubrey Stewarts English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northwesta cold wind.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
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