Rome Quotes

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

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.

When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided to come here. I am here to be with you – a little bit late, but I’m here.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

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

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

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

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

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

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!

In London, it's hard for me to wear anything more colorful than black. When I'm in Rome, I dress up in white. When I'm in Paris, I became a Parisian. Striped T-shirt, Chanel. It's funny!

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

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