“ The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ Evil report, like the Italian stiletto, is an assassin's weapon. ”
- Francoise d’Aubigne Maintenon- Copy
- 240
“ If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 812
“ I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 597
“ The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. ”
- Titus Livius- Copy
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“ As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. ”
- John Bright- Copy
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“ I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. ”
- Martha Beck- Copy
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“ It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano. ”
- Joan Collins- Copy
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“ The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ”
- Katharine Hepburn- Copy
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“ The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
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“ Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ”
- George Miller- Copy
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“ I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ”
- Charles V- Copy
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“ Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ”
- Pope John XXIII- Copy
- 917
“ Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian. ”
- Vittorio Gassman- Copy
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