The people are the city. [ Coriolanus ]
In the busy haunts of men. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Cities are taken by the ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Even cities have their graves. [ Longfellow ]
Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men. [ Milton ]
Cities seldom change religion only. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. [ William Shakespeare ]
Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. [ Homer ]
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roof to shroud his head. [ Thos. Heywood ]
If you would know and not be known, live in a city. [ Colton ]
Look on the bee upon the wing among flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts. [ Bailey ]
Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. [ Varro ]
Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them. [ Bovee ]
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, - others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. [ Hawthorne ]
Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires. [ Montaigne ]
Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires. [ Montaigne ]
Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]