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• As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 445...
• Hell is a city much like London--A populous and smoky city. -- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY, 1819
• It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. -- Aristotle
• No one loves the man whom he fears. -- Aristotle
• How does one conduct great enterprises in a city where people trail oxen with a broom and pan in hopes of getting a free surprise?
• One pushes upward into an empty city.
• Aristotle's Dictum: One should always prefer the probable impossible to the improbable possible.
• Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, each at war with the othe
  and in either division there are smaller ones -- you would make a great mistake if you treated them as single states....
• I'll never forget the time I was flying over Milwaukee and the pilot said, "We're now approaching the great city
  let's set our watches back one hundred years." -- Jack E. Leonard...