Cynical-humor Quote by Angela Elwell Hunt

“It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.”

— Cato the Elder

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“there are people in this town who work very hard to sanitize the history of the place.”

— Amy Cross

“How did they decide what was valuable? Did they all just gather together, sit around in their suits and gowns, and say, “Oi. Let’s…

— Brandon Sanderson

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes…

— Krista Tippett

“You can catch fishes with baits and men with bright colours!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas…

— Don DeLillo

“Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people.”

— Laozi

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“The whole city was dangerous—because of chemicals and the uneven distribution of wealth and so on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sea and fisherman are not good friends because fisherman takes the good treasures of the sea without giving something good in return!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate