Famous quotes containing the words city gate, medieval, city and/or gate:
“When the city gate catches fire, its the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (18251895)
“Not to find ones way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorancenothing more. But to lose oneself in a cityas one loses oneself in a forestthat calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”
—Walter Benjamin (18921940)
“Pale Death beats equally at the poor mans gate and at the palaces of kings.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 B.C.)