Launceston City Council

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or council:

“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.

Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)