Sicilian Expedition/winter of 415 - Spring of 414 BC

Famous quotes containing the words expedition, winter and/or spring:

    “Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
    —Janet Frame (b. 1924)

    “Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)