11) 60788. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:60788 QUOTATION:As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their...
12) 49001. Selznick, David O. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:49001 QUOTATION:Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last...
13) 3451. Walter Cronkite. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 3451 AUTHOR: Walter Cronkite QUOTATION: When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people...
14) Gian ben Gian (g soft). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...King of the Ginns or Genii, and founder of the Pyramids. He was overthrown by Aza zil or Lucifer. (Arab superstitions.) 1...
15) Sonnet 123. Craig, W.J., ed. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare
...NO, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former...
16) pyramid. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Something shaped like this polyhedron. 2a. A massive monument of ancient Egypt having a rectangular base and four triangular faces culminating in a single apex, built...
17) 52119. Shakespeare, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:52119 QUOTATION:Though castles topple on their warder's heads,Though palaces and pyramids do slopeTheir heads to their foundations; though the treasureOf nature's...
18) 20210. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:20210 QUOTATION:All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,-is...
19) 34783. Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert). The Columbia World of Quotations.
1996
...NUMBER:34783 QUOTATION:Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha...
20) 2461. Thomas Fuller. 1608-1661. Bartlett, John, comp. 1919. Familiar
Quotations, 10th ed.
...NUMBER: 2461 AUTHOR: Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) QUOTATION: The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ATTRIBUTION: Of Tombs....
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