Sayings about Town & City
The town is new every day. ~ Estonian Proverbs
A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago. ~ American Proverbs
If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined. ~ Korean Proverbs
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Your hometown is like a small fatherland. ~ Mexican Proverbs
The city, whose physician has the gout, is in a bad state. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts. ~ Romanian Proverbs
In the village that you don’t know, the chickens have teeth. ~ Ivorian Proverbs
The city that negotiates is half conquered. ~ French Proverbs
Never by-pass a town where a friend lives. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes. ~ Iranian Proverbs
For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village. ~ South American Proverb
Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician. ~ Traditional Proverb
If everyone swept in front of his house, the whole town would be clean. ~ Polish Proverbs
Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village. ~ Malian Proverbs
Better the head of a village than the tail of a town. ~ Corsican Proverbs
The people make the town. ~ Greek Proverbs
If you cannot build a town, build a heart. ~ Kurdish Proverbs
In every village there is a path that leads to the mill. ~ Syrian Proverbs
If the townspeople are happy, look for the cook. ~ Liberian Proverbs
The village feeds the town. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
Hunger leads the wolf to the village. ~ German Proverbs
In the villages where there are no oxen, the sheep’s feet seem strong. ~ Ivorian Proverb
In a deserted village the jackass is king. ~ Indian Proverbs
The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Quotations about Towns & Cities
A great city whose image dwells on the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; faith hovers over Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world-art. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ~ Somerset Maugham
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the city but the people? ~ William Shakespeare
In Rome you long for the country; in the country – oh inconstant! – you praise the distant city to the stars. ~ Horace
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas. ~ William Hazlitt
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy. ~ Samuel Johnson
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. ~ Marcus Terentius Varro
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. ~ Pierre Charron
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. ~ Ben Hecht
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~ Cyril Connolly
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. ~Philip G. Hamerton
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. ~ Bible
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places. ~ Baltasar Gracian
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. ~ Aristotle
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ~Christopher Morley
Cities are the abyss of the human species. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~ Herbert Prochnow
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would know and not be known, live in a city. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God made the country, and man made the town. ~ William Cowper
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. ~ Euripides
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The city disappears street by street as you enter it. ~ Ian Seed
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~ Bill Gates
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ~ Desmond Morris
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