Empire Strikes

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or strikes:

“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Pan’s Syrinx was a girl indeed,
Though now she’s turned into a reed;
From that dear reed Pan’s pipe does come,
A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;”
—John Lyly (1553–1606)