Oyo Empire/early Period 1300s

Famous quotes containing the words empire, early and/or period:

    “So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear,
    Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost;
    Evil, be thou my Good: by thee at least
    Divided empire with Heaven’s King I hold,
    By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;
    As Man ere long, and this new World, shall know.””
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
    —James Thurber (1894–1961)

    “The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
    —Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)