Wrapped

Famous quotes containing the word wrapped:

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

““He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)