Famous quotes containing the words besieged and/or city:
“Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: “Here,” he said, “are the walls of the city,” meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)