CITIES

Related Subjects: Community, Cosmopolitan, London, New York City, Paris, Park, Town, Village

1. I have found by experience, that 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
   

2. The larger our great cities grow, the more irresistible becomes the attraction which they exert on the children of the country, who are fascinated by them, as the birds are fascinated by the lighthouse or the moths by the candle.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Task of Social Hygiene
   

3. An urban life saps that calm and stolid strength which is necessary for all great effort and stress, physical or intellectual.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Task of Social Hygiene
   

4. Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.—EMERSON
   

5. But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center; corruption
   
   Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.—ROBINSON JEFFERS, Shine, Perishing Republic
   

6. To one who has been long in city pent,
   'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
   And open face of heaven.—KEATS, Sonnet, To One who Has Been Long in City Pent
   

7. If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous purpose, and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.—LA BRUYERE
   

8. Proud is the city—She finds a place for many a fad today,
   But she's more than blind if she fails to find a place for the boys to play!—DENIS MCCARTHY, Give Them a Place to Play
   

9. As one who long in populous city pent,
   Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

10. Tower'd cities please us then,
    And the busy hum of men.—MILTON, L'Allegro
    

11. City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good.—Proverb
    

12. A great city, a great solitude.—Proverb
    

13. What is the city but the people?—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

14. The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.—CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, My Summer in a Garden
    

15. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Broad-Axe