The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958
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I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverb