City-Life
Quotes on City Life
City Life. Millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) English author
Fields and trees teach me nothing, but the people in a city do.
Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek philosopher
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
C. C. Colton (1780-1832) English author
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) French writer
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian
Omnis civitas corpus est. Every city is a living body.
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author
They who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
C. C. Colton (1780-1832) English author
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. Desmond Morris (b. 1928) British anthropologist No city should be too large for a man to walk out of it in a morning.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) British critic
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) British poet
Prepare for death if here at night you roam. And sign your will before you sup from home.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
