Famous quotes containing the words gains, city and/or status:
“One who falls in a pit, gains in wit.”
—Chinese proverb.
“What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)