Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb
Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. – Fred A. Allen
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. – Fred A. Allen
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beautys heightening… – Matthew Arnold
I found Rome brick, I left it marble. – Caesar Augustus
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger
When in Rome, do as Rome does. – Ambrose Bierce
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future – Daniel J. Boorstin
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. – Rupert Brooke
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. – John Ciardi
