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.....

“From the time the Englishman’s bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)