Famous quotes containing the words north, oracle and/or road:
“Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate,
With Li Po’s name forgotten,
And we guardsmen fed to the tigers.”
—Li Po (701–762)
“Know thyself.”
—Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
—William Jones (1746–1794)