Empire Builders

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or builders:

“now
I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
When Alexander’s empire passed, they slept so sound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)