I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child. — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome. — William Hartnell 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
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
“my fourth day in Rome, my shadow has still not darkened the door way of a church or a museum..” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth,… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Although the Romans knew Chinese silk, they knew not China. They believed that silk grew directly on the mulberry tree, not realizing… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green 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
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They… — Mary Gaitskill 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
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther… — John Milton Copy Share Image
![“But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/edward-gibbon-710_barbarians_but-the-arabs-friendship-was-venal-their_1636211.jpg)
