Vatican City State

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or state:

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

“It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)