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Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. -- Robert De Niro
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. -- Giotto di Bondone
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
Rome wasn't built in a day. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When you are at Rome, do as you see. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. -- Robert Browning
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. -- Horace
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. -- Augustus
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. -- Lord Byron
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. -- Julius Caesar
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. -- Ambrose
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. -- George William Curtis
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. -- John Lennon
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
Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
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
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay. -- Joachim du Bellay
Rome is an astonishment! -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rome is everybody's memory ... -- Eleanor Clark
Rome alone can resist Rome. -- Pierre Corneille
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Rome wasn't built in a day -- Proverb
Everything in Rome has its price. -- Juvenal
Ancient Rome was a violent place. -- James Purefoy
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew. -- Alexander Pope
I am singing now while Rome burns. -- Richard Siken
Rome was not built in one day. -- John Heywood
When in Rome, do as Rome does. -- Ambrose Bierce
The law in Athens is true in Rome -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy. -- Elizabeth Bowen
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. -- Ambrose
Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills. -- Alexander Payne
Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined. -- Frank Dane
When in Rome, live in the Roman way. -- Ambrose
Oh what would Rome be without a plot? -- Pope Alexander VI
Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul! -- Lord Byron
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar -- Emperor Sigismund
Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome. -- Jean Drapeau
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death. -- Moliere
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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. -- Goldwin Smith
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. -- Goldwin Smith
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome. -- Margaret Fuller
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live. -- Ambrose
All things may be bought in Rome with money. -- Juvenal
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. -- Ben Jonson
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day. -- Margaret Mead
I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes. -- Owen Wilson
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse. -- Shemp Howard
Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. -- Erin Heatherton
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city -- Anatole Broyard
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined. -- Frank Dane
Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome. -- Les Wexner
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. -- Anatole Broyard
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance -- Samuel Johnson
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. -- Eddie Izzard
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. -- Tacitus
Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome. -- Adam DeVine
Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome. -- Rick Riordan
I have wished to crush Rome that I might crush Christianity. -- Otto von Bismarck
Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body -- Tony Horton
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. -- Cecilia Bartoli
Now you can build Rome in a day with Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. -- William Shakespeare
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you. -- Alec Baldwin
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. -- Julius Caesar
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Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?! -- Augustus
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble. -- Suetonius
It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians. -- Bobby Dodd
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. -- Horace
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish. -- Robert E. Howard
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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am. -- Pierre Corneille
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. -- Giambattista Valli
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time. -- Mira Grant
Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome -- Kanye West
I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome -- Madonna Ciccone
Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic. -- Owen Wilson
In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. -- Edward Gibbon
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. -- Epicurus
Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. -- Michel de Montaigne
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. -- Saint Ambrose
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. -- Ambrose
I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party. -- Adam McKay
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome. -- Hans Kung
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? -- Joseph Addison
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job. -- Brian Clough
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. -- William Cowper
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! -- Louis Simpson
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. -- Livy
Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. -- Chris Johnson
Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around. -- Scott McClanahan
Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate! -- Pierre Corneille
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. -- Henry Fuseli
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow. -- William Shakespeare
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. -- Abraham Lincoln
Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there. -- Lev L. Spiro
Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness .... -- Fanny Kemble
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. -- Jimmy Hoffa
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section. -- George Carlin
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. -- Terence McKenna
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. -- Pierre Corneille
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. -- Hannibal
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Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament. -- Daniela Hantuchova
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child. -- Paolo Sorrentino
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. -- John Foxe

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