Naqsh-e Jahan Square/masjed-e Shah

Famous quotes containing the words square and/or shah:

    “O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Varis Shah says habits don’t die even if we are cut into pieces.”
    —Varis Shah (18th cent.)