Code Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

— Ambrose

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

— Quintus Ennius

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

— Seth Shostak

The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different…

— Justo L. Gonzalez

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

— Vincent de Paul

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real…

— Annie Dillard

“There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a…

— Hilary Mantel

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

— Sanford I. Weill

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss