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
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew… — Samuel Johnson 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
Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just… — Maria Grazia Cucinotta Copy Share Image
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of… — Robert Underwood Johnson Copy Share Image
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you:… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him… — Frederic Rzewski Copy Share Image
“I think about that centurion from time to time and wonder, had he retired to a farm in Campagna, happy with his… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
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