Small Council

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or council:

“Better to cheat an old grey head than to trick a small child.”
—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)