“Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good.” — Peter Leonard Copy Share Image
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job. — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
“Lemme guess: you know the future and want to tell me ALL ABOUT IT.” — Michael Jagdeo Copy Share Image
We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the… — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]” — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets. — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and… — Peter Heather Copy Share Image
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...Tis the center to which all gravitates. One finds no rest elswhere than here. There may be other cities that please us… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? — Joseph Addison 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
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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