Provincial Armies

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or armies:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)