Sicilian Expedition/winter of 415 %e2%80%93 Spring of 414 BC

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

    It is a sort of ranger service. Arnold’s expedition is a daily experience with these settlers. They can prove that they were out at almost any time; and I think that all the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The winter evening settles down
    With smell of steaks in passageways.
    Six o’clock.
    The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    As if the spring were all your own,
    What are you when the rose is blown?
    Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)