Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good. '
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Empire breeds terrorism.
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.