Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Daniel Pinkwater

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

James G. Stavridis

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess

Karl Marx

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.