Rome Quotes - Page 24

• A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.

  Ninian Smart

  Mother, Baptized In, Blood

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• If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Investing, Credit

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• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Sublime, Shifting, Steps

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

  George Eliot

  World, Wanted, Seems

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.183, 谷月社

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• A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

  Douglas Wilson

  Christian, Two, Imagination

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Paris, America

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Writing, Machines, West

  "Top writing tips: Caroline Lawrence" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Atheism, Would Be

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• Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.

  Edward Gibbon

  School, Years, Long

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.299

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• Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

  Eleanor Clark

  Home, Cities, Tourists

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• Rome is everybody's memory.

  Eleanor Clark

  Memories

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• Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

  Eleanor Clark

  Impossible, Century, Turns

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Greatness, Egypt, Civilization

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• If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, History, Empires

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.42

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• In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Zest, People, Imagination

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

  Martin Luther

  Farewell, Wrath, Dragons

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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

  Will Rogers

  Government, House, Conservative

  "Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered". Book by John Galt, p. 235, 1986.

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• The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, Luxury, Glasses

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.106

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• Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

  Pope Alexander VI

  Plot

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• Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Feet, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.321

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• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

  Augustus

  Wife, Nuisance, Citizens

  The Julian marriage laws (nos. 120-123, etc.), www.unrv.com.

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• You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Play, Ears

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