Vaults Quotes
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At the same moment a peculiar fragrance was borne upon the breeze, as
if a passing fairy had hiccuped, and had previously been
to a wine vaults.
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More Vaults Quotes
The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
thomas campion— The Man of Life Upright
A Reichsbank president who was totally ignorant of what went in and out of the vaults of his bank.
walther funk— Robert H. Jackson
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.
lewis h. lapham— Chapter 5, Social Hygiene, p. 125
...the treasure discovered in a temple in southern India. Nobody knew for certain what was hidden beneath the ancient Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple... But a lawyer named Ananda Padmanabhan had a hunch. According to legend , treasure was sealed in the temple vaults .
— Jake Halpern, in The Secret of The Temple:The discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars shakes southern India. April 30, 2012
After a series of appeals, the Supreme Court of India announced that before it ruled on the stewardship of the temple, a team of “observers” would inspect the remaining vaults that supposedly contained treasure. vaults A and B, which had “reportedly not been opened for more than a century,” would be opened, inspected, then “closed and sealed again.
— Jake Halpern, in "The Secret of The Temple:The discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars shakes southern India."
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
— Attributed to Dr. Laud by Bacon, Apothegms, No. 273.
Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man’s life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.
Émile chartier— Introduction
