| "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome." »Gaius Julius Caesar |
| "It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." »Harry S Truman |
| "Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House" »Will Rogers |
| "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus |
| "If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose |
| "Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren |
| "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham |
| "He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man." »William Shakespeare |
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