“ See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the same. Follow the custom of the church where you are. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 1.2K
“ All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay. ”
- Joachim Du Bellay- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
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“ London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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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“ If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
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“ On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 135
“ More imagination wanted at Rome than at home to appreciate the place. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 2.6K
“ For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
- 239
“ I've seen Rome, and I shall go to bed a wiser man than I last rose — yesterday morning. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 849
“ A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;And when Rome falls — the World. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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