Persian Wars

Famous quotes containing the words persian and/or wars:

    The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
    They are no wealthier than I;
    But with as brave a core within
    They rear their boughs to the October sky.
    Poor knights they are which bravely wait
    The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
    Keeping a simple Roman state,
    Discumbered of their Persian luxury.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Now his wars on God begin;
    At stroke of midnight God shall win.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)