Famous quotes containing the words colonial and/or empires:
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)