Greater East

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or east:

“There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)