Oracle Bones

Famous quotes containing the words oracle and/or bones:

“Know thyself.”
—Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....

“Growing old is no gradual decline, but a series of tumbles, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another. Yet when we pick ourselves up we find no bones are broken; while not unpleasing is the new terrace which stretches out unexplored before us.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)