Le congre'  s ne marche pas, il danse. The Congress makes no progress; it dances.

-Ligne, CharlesJoseph, Prince de
  On the Congress of  Vienna (1814^15). Quoted in  Auguste de la Garde-Chambonas Souvenirs du Congre'  s de Vienne, 1814^1815 (1820), ch.1.

   And what a congress of stinks!ö Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf-mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks. Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

-Rogers,Will
  The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.