Rome Quotes - Page 22

• Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Latin, Law

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Moon

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 27

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• O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
  I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome;
  And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines
  When the evening star so holy shines,
  I laugh at the lore and pride of man,
  At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan;
  For what are they all in their high conceit,
  When man in the bush with God may meet?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Stars, Home

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Powerful, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

  Edward Thomson

  Bible, Philosophy, Zion

  Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35

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• People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Dad, Father

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Individuality

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• But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, Ordinary

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.429, Modern Library

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• All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

  Louis Simpson

  America, Weight, Ruins

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.196, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cities, Our Love, Common

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.763, Stanford University Press

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• I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Mother, Father, Mean

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

  Pietro Badoglio

  Government, Land, Cities

  "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, (p. 9), 2007.

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• In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.

  John Daniel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Agreement

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• It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Sex, Numbers, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.187

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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, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Devil, London, Hell

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• War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

  Arthur Helps

  Kings, War, Games

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• [I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

  Tony Benn

  Philosophy, Laissez Faire, Method

  "Encounter" Magazine, January 1963.

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• I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

  Giovanna Cau

  Country, Film History, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Reading, Yale, Agony

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• The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Character, Two, Keys

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

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• Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

  Anthony Trollope

  Motto, Worst, Hearted

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.446

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• At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.

  Luigi Russolo

  Art, Ideas, Innovation

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• Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Purpose, Genius, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.239

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• Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Car, Driven, Said

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