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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. — Abraham Lincoln

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place. — Iain Pears

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. — Bernie Ecclestone

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. — Goldwin Smith

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy. — Elizabeth Bowen

Being Captain No-Fun really is no fun — Jay Crownover

Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose. — Adrian Goldsworthy

I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature. — William Shakespeare

...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both. — Judith Works

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world. — Fran Lebowitz

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?! — Augustus

They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's. — Katlyn Charlesworth

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right? — Alexander Payne

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome. — Muhammad Ali

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament. — Daniela Hantuchova

To the birds and trees he talks:
Caesar of his leafy Rome,
There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome — Kanye West

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still — D.H. Lawrence

There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way. — Jim Rome

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held — Pope Leo XIII

All Gaul is divided into three parts. — Julius Caesar

Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible. — Timothy Ferriss

Martyr More,' he says. 'The word is in Rome that he and Fisher are to be made saints. — Hilary Mantel

Grief is a hard mistress to have, Rome. She eventually wants all you have to give her. — Jay Crownover

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am. — Pierre Corneille

London is - after Athens and Rome - the third most influential city in history. — Boris Johnson

[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell. — Martin Luther

[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time ... — Henryk Stanczyk

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day you live is a lesson in itself. — T.A. Uner

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. — Arthur Hugh Clough

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. — Augusto De Luca

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. — Henry David Thoreau

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. — Rowan Williams

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. — Mary Douglas

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier

Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. — Livy

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted. — Ron Paul

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this. — Suheir Hammad

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food. — Roger Federer

Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead. — David Mamet

Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'. — Virginia Woolf

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills. — Alexander Payne

Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea. — Sudhir Ahluwalia

To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome. — Helen Keller

All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there. — G.K. Chesterton

This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins. — Eliza Griswold

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly. — Ned Rorem

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. — Robert De Niro

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries. — Fran Lebowitz

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

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. — Neel Burton

I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them. — Simon Van Booy

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined. — Frank Dane

Rome is everybody's memory ... — Eleanor Clark

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it. — Martin Luther

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for. — Mark Viduka

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. — Anthony Trollope

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy. — Dorothy Dunnett

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. — Robert W. Welch Jr.

Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related. — Mallory Jansen

Everything is against us ... But I have something they don't.
A love that will stop at nothing to defend the true heir to Egypt and Rome. — Trisha Wolfe

In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna

Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover. — Paolo Sorrentino

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. — Graham Joyce

Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child. — Paolo Sorrentino

In the long run, the fall of one civilization is very much like the fall of another. Only the land remains. — Morgan Llywelyn

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. — Eddie Izzard

Rome is an astonishment! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues. — John Cheever

As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power. — Michael Schmicker

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people. — Arthur Helps

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. — Giotto Di Bondone

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames. — George Orwell

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. — Erin Heatherton

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ... — Eleanor Clark