The people are the city. [ Coriolanus ]
A great city a great solitude. [ Proverb ]
At my feet the city slumbered. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A great city is a great desert. [ Gr. and Law Proverb ]
A city that parleys is half gotten. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A pure conscience may defy city gossips. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If you would know and not be known, live in a city. [ Colton ]
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. [ Cowley ]
It is the men, not the houses, that makes the city. [ Proverb ]
City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good. [ Proverb ]
The chickens are the country's, but the city eats them. [ Proverb ]
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. [ Virgil ]
That city cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish. [ Proverb ]
Here, where the city now stands, was at that time nothing but its site. [ Ovid ]
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. [ Aristotle ]
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. [ Luke ii. 11 ]
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. [ Joseph Roux ]
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. [ Epictetus ]
At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city. [ Cicero ]
It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. [ Seneca ]
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. [ Cowley ]
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. [ R. W. Emerson ]
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. [ Longfellow ]
Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The little flower which sprung up through the hard pavement of poor Picciola's prison was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here amid rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature. And O, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ Chapin ]
The little flower which sprung up through the hard payment of poor Picciola's prison, was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here, amid the rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature; and oh, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ E. H. Chapin ]