Empire Wily

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or wily:

“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“The wily hare has three burrows.”
—Chinese proverb.