Famous quotes containing the words east india, north, east and/or india:
“An arch never sleeps.”
—East Indian saying.
“Refinement’s origin:
the remote north country’s
rice-planting song.”
—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)
“The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)