Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Edward Thorndike
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual. - Frank Herbert
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin! - Joseph Warren
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. - Winston S. Churchill
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die. - Kevin J. Anderson
Great empires are not maintained by timidity. - Tacitus
Strength builds empires that last for decades. Wisdom builds empires that last for centuries. Love builds empires that last forever. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. - Sir Winston Churchill
I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. - Moffat Machingura
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies. - Virchand Gandhi
My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow. - Andrew Marvell