Army Ants

Famous quotes containing the words army and/or ants:

    An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.
    Chinese proverb.

    this ant-and stone-swallowing uninjurable
    artichoke which simpletons thought a living fable
    whom the stones had nourished, whereas ants had done
    so.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)