Plutarch Quotes:
Ocupation: Biographer
Life: 45 - 120
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."
source: "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 56 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.
topic: Tree, Speech, Fruit, Cypresses, Cypress Trees
