Cities Quotes and Sayings

There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- Mark Twain

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
- Sigmund Freud

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.
- James G. Daly

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
- Sigmund Freud

I’ve made an odd discovery.  Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility.  Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
- Ayn Rand

Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.
- R. P. Lebret

Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
- Ogden Nash

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
- W. R. Whitney

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau

I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.
- Groucho Marx

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
- Dennis Miller

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
- Bible

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
- George Santayana

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
- Georgia O’Keeffe

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