Fukui Prefecture - Friendship Cities

Famous quotes containing the words friendship and/or cities:

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)