Oracle Bones

Famous quotes containing the words oracle and/or bones:

“Know thyself.”
—Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....

“All earth was but one thought—and that was death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails—men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devour’d,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)