Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate! — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such… — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. — Hannibal Copy Share Image
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said… — Benjamin Tucker 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
Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked.… — Rick Riordan 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
“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
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
One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Rome was not built in one day and you do not have to be perfect.” — Arrmon Abedikichi Copy Share Image
