Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. — Livy Copy Share Image
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace Copy Share Image
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome;… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich 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
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
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
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
I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years… — Natalie Dormer 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
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
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors… — Charles Chiniquy Copy Share Image
And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“I don't have a ring. I don't have a pretty speech prepared. All I know is that I love you more than… — Jay Crownover 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
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
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
“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
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler 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
The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. — Giambattista Valli 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
I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
