Rome Quotes

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. (Julius Caesar)
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. View quote
Livy
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. View quote
Augustus
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? View quote
Will Rogers
If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live there. View quote
Ambrose
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Rome was not built in one day. View quote
John Heywood
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. (Daniel Webster)
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. View quote
Joseph Addison
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. View quote
Hannibal
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. View quote
Robert De Niro
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. View quote
Richard Meier
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. (Augustus)
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive. View quote
Simone Weil
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux