Egypt

Famous quotes containing the word egypt:

    “Go down, Moses
    ‘Way down in Egypt land,
    Tell ole Pharaoh,
    To let my people go.”
    —Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)

    “There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)