What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and… — Peter Heather Copy Share Image
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York.… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never… — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Sidonius lives in a world already half barbarian, yet in the year before the Western Empire falls he is still dreaming of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What can you possibly say about Rome? That it's eternal? That all roads lead to it? That it wasn't built in a… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn."… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The history of Italy, and especially of Rome, is intertwined with the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Rome became tied to… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
