Ancient Silk Road

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

“Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.”
—Dewitt Bodeen (1908–1988)

“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)