Famous quotes containing the words city and/or council:
“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)