Burma quotes

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin'eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For thewind isinthepalmtrees, an'thetemplebellsthey say: 'Come you back, you British soldier'; come you back to Mandalay!'

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Mandalay'.

Nothing happens in Burma, but then nothing is expected to happen.

- Paul Edward Theroux
  The Great Railway Bazaar, ch.23.