Famous quotes containing the words city and/or bureau:
“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.””
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)