Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:
“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a mans ego like an automobile.”
—Sir William Rootes (18941964)
“Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
All that silk and satin gear;
Crouch upon a stone,
Wrapping that foul body up
In as foul a rag....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
—David Hume (17111776)
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