Emperor Gordian

Famous quotes containing the words emperor and/or gordian:

    “In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:1.

    “Turn him to any cause of policy,
    The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
    Familiar as his garter.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)