Tower Collapsed

Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or collapsed:

    “The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “William James once said: “Progress is a terrible thing.” It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knows but that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)