Small City Franchise

Famous quotes containing the words small, city and/or franchise:

    “Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand and immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Many famous feet have trod
    Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed
    The strength they have against the strength they need;
    And famous lips interrogated God
    Concerning franchise in eternity....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)