Quote by Jules Verne

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed…

— Perry Brass

I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure,…

— Jack Handey

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent…

— Ambrose Bierce

“They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the voice of…

— James Joyce

“The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes…

— Mark Kurlansky

“The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.”

— Michael Scott

Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.

— Hakim Bey

“In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how…

— William T. Sherman

“When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discover'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the…

— Thomas Pynchon

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your…

— Rick Riordan