Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Votes: 5
Giotto di BondoneAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. Votes: 4
Jean de La FontaineI would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. Votes: 4
Julius CaesarIf you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. Votes: 4
AmbroseDetroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. Votes: 3
P. J. O'RourkeDetroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. Votes: 3
P. J. O'RourkeAny avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellRome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. Votes: 3
Giambattista ValliRome wasn't built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering. Votes: 3
Stephen RichardsIn discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. Votes: 3
Edward GibbonRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. Votes: 3
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonI'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party. Votes: 3
Adam McKayWhen in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. Votes: 3
Saint AmbroseAll that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! Votes: 3
Louis SimpsonThis very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneGreece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. Votes: 3
William CowperWhoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there. Votes: 3
Lev L. SpiroI see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. Votes: 3
Abraham LincolnThe moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareAncient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. Votes: 3
Henry FuseliFellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around. Votes: 3
Scott McClanahanRome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. Votes: 3
Chris JohnsonIn Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section. Votes: 3
George CarlinRome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. Votes: 3
LivyRome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness .... Votes: 3
Fanny KembleI have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. Votes: 3
HannibalMen did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Votes: 3
G.K. ChestertonMen did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonRome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament. Votes: 3
Daniela HantuchovaArt's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Votes: 3
Terence McKennaThe universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. Votes: 3
Pierre CorneilleTo the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. Votes: 3
HoraceRome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether. Votes: 3
Alice MeynellWhen in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. Votes: 3
Bikram ChoudhuryIf we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. Votes: 3
AugustusTake heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. Votes: 3
Henry WottonBut my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. Votes: 3
Isabella RosselliniRome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. Votes: 3
Graham JoyceRome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Votes: 3
Richard MeierI swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. Votes: 3
HannibalWhen in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. Votes: 3
Vincent de PaulIn Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. Votes: 3
George EliotIf Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing. Votes: 3
Matteo SalviniI write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. Votes: 3
Caroline LawrenceThe UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for. Votes: 3
Mark VidukaWould that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] Votes: 2
SuetoniusAncient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? Votes: 6 Will Rogers
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Votes: 1 Richard Meier
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years. Votes: 2 Gary Shteyngart