Rome Quotes - Page 2

• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

  John Barrowman

  Men, Would Be, Rooms

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• I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

  Julius Caesar

  Men, Village, Barbarians

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• Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

  Robert Browning

  Late, Rounds

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Hands, Cities, Paris

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

  Tacitus

  Empires, Great Empires, Timidity

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• When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, World, Coliseum

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

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• Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Spiritual, Civilization, Life And Death

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.61

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• If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

  Ambrose

  Style, Elsewhere, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 677, 1922.

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• The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.

  Cassius Dio

  Men, Blood, Feet

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• Some remedies are worse than the disease.

  Publilius Syrus

  Latin, Health, Medicine

  "Maxims". 301,

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• When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

  Ambrose

  Giving, Church, Milan

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 677, 1922.

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• Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

  Pope John Paul II

  Feet, Land, Today

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• Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven... have ever been inside. So the NFL is certainly about the Colosseum of Rome. It can't be a studio game.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Games, Fans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

  Anatole Broyard

  Cities

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• 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

  Years, Broken, Arches

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.98

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Memories, Evil

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• There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Political, Politics

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.656, Wordsworth Editions

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• Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Loss, People

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• Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

  John Adams

  Religious, Time, Real

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• The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

  Pope Francis

  Catholic, Church, Desire

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• All the contagion of the south light on you,
  You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
  Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
  Further than seen, and one infect another
  Against the wind a mile!

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Wind, May

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

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• There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

  Alan Bennett

  Mean, Science, Space

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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