When in Rome, do as Rome does.
Ambrose Bierce
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls...
VENERABLE BEDE When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA When in Rome, do as the Romans do
PROVERB When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville
FLANNERY O'CONNOR 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.
SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when ...
LORD BYRON When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
ROBERT BURTON There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls--the World.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
JOSEPH ADDISON When you are at Rome, do as you see.
[Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO We have set up an appointment for Mugabe to meet the secretary-general in Rome therefore we do expec...
FRED ECKHARD I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.
STEPHANIE DRAY No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT All roads do not lead to Rome.
SLOVENIAN PROVERB Rome, Rome, thou art no more
As thou hast been!
On thy seven hills of yore
Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
ALEC BALDWIN When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
SAINT AMBROSE At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.
UNKNOWN Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
[Lat., Omitte mirari beatae
F...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) To Rome for everything.
[Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I
do not fast. So likewise you, what...
SAINT AMBROSE I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray
Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,
Whence this exc...
SAMUEL ROGERS In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge.
A coin unsordid as a bond of love--
And, with the...
ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON See the wild Waste of all-devouring years!
How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,
With noddin...
ALEXANDER POPE All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should
choose different paths.
[Fr., Tous ch...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE [Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world.
[Fr., Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais rei...
GABRIEL GILBERT Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter,
And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.
To s...
JOACHIM DU BELLAY I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rome was not built in a day.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly
overthrew.
[Lat., Quod tantis Romana ...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
[Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!...
CAIUS TRANQUILLUS SUETONIUS When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do
not. Do the same. Follow the cu...
SAINT AMBROSE If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere
live as they live elsewhere.
[La...
SAINT AMBROSE I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
AUGUSTUS Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airpor...
MUHAMMAD ALI Rome wasn't built in a day.
MIKE RUCKER Rome, Open City .
GUY MADDIN Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
ANATOLE BROYARD O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! - O happy Rome, born when I was consul!
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Rome from street level. (It's) Rome from the point of view of ordinary people caught up in the extra...
BRUNO HELLER I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when yo...
ROGER FEDERER If all roads lead to Rome, we can only wish for thousands of roads to lead to Revolutionary Rome!
FIDEL CASTRO Ancient Rome was a violent place.
JAMES PUREFOY All roads lead to Rome
PROVERB Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no to...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH I like Rome ... but I won't live there.
ROMANO PRODI I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendec...
DAVID WISHART I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as C(ae...
STEVEN SAYLOR The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heaven...
STEVEN SAYLOR Men like Caesar and Pompey--they're not heroes, Meto. They're monsters. They call their greed and am...
STEVEN SAYLOR All things may be bought in Rome with money.
JUVENAL Today, when Quincy Jones wants to stage a concert, he comes to Rome.
WALTER VELTRONI When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
SEANAN MCGUIRE 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire.
SEX AND THE CITY He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
N ROME They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were ...
MARGARET ROME She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husba...
MARGARET ROME I think it's fair to say that over the course of the Bush presidency, if Dick Cheney had had his way...
ROME HARTMAN Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents...
ROME SIMS We are working on parallel development of ergonomic backpacks for everyone from school children c...
LAWRENCE ROME As humans walk, they vault over their extended leg, causing the hip to rise five to seven centimeter...
LAWRENCE ROME Field researchers, for example, have to carry many replacement batteries to power their equipment, w...
LAWRENCE ROME The beauty of the system is the weight you are carrying around with you anyway serves as the mass to...
LAWRENCE ROME Metabolically speaking, we've found this to be much cheaper than we anticipated. The energy you exer...
LARRY ROME As humans walk, they vault over their extended leg, causing the hip to rise 5-7 centimeters on each ...
LARRY ROME I realized if you pay them, they will come.
LARRY ROME The concept only took about 15 minutes to come up with.
LARRY ROME We've gotten some reports and it's not good.
JODY ROME She's a total game changer. The thing that really sets her apart, the big reason that everybody watc...
ROME HARTMAN Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.
ERIN HEATHERTON I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
CECILIA BARTOLI My fascination with ancient Rome started as a kid back in Texas when my father turned me on to Rober...
PETER WELLER I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
ADAM MCKAY Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So cl...
FEDERICO FELLINI The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've d...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Thou hast fair forms that move
With queenly tread;
Thou hast proud fanes above
Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown i...
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in ...
TADAO ANDO Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty...
PAOLO SORRENTINO So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
BIBLE He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
GEORGE ELIOT I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
GEORGE GORDON Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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