A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I always wonder about people who go to Rome as they might go, for example, to Paris or to London. Certainly Rome… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine;… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble — Julius Caesar 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
It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one's environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role,… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
“Sir, you do understand that - officially - I'm not actually a centurion. I haven't even been assigned to a legion yet.'… — Nick Brown Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
