Mille viae ducunt homines per s×cula Romam. Throughout the ages, a thousand roads lead to Rome.

-Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'
  Liber Parabolarum, ch.3, l.56.

He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Lucky  Jim, ch.25.

All the devastation, the butchery, the plundering, the conflagrations, and all the anguish which accompanied the recent disaster at Rome were in accordance with the general practice of warfare.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 427  City of God, vol.1, ch.1, section 8.

†the Metropolis of Great-Britain, founded before the City of Rome, walled by Constantine the Great, no ways inferior to the greatest in Europe for Riches and Greatness.

-Bailey, Nathan   d.1742
     LONDON1721 An Universal Etymological English Dictionary.

Rome de Rome est le seul monument, Et Rome Rome a vaincu seulement. Rome is the only monument left of Rome, And only Rome vanquished Rome.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Antiquitez de Rome, no.5.

Rome seule pouvait a'   Rome ressembler, Rome seule pouvait Rome fait trembler. Only Rome can resemble Rome, And Rome alone can make Rome fall.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Antiquitez de Rome, no.6.

The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.

-Book of Common Prayer
Articles of Religion, XXX VII Of the Civil Magistrates.

Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.

-Boyd,William Andrew Murray
A Good Man in  Africa, ch.1.

In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks,'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religionfrom Rome or Geneva, butthe dictates of my own reason.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 5.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. Avastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza 78.

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome fallsöthe World.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza145.

Burn, with Athens and with Rome, A sacred city of the mind.

-Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie
  'Toledo,  July1936'.

And thries hadde she been at Jerusalem; She hadde passed manya straunge strem; At Rome she hadde been, and at Boloigne, In Galice at Seint-Jame, and at Coloigne.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.463^6.

O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! O lucky Rome, born when I was consul!

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
Cicero was consul in 63     . His only extant line of poetry, quoted in  Juvenal, Satires 10, l.122.

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Amours de Voyage, canto1, pt.2.

Humorists are not happy men. Like Beachcomber or Saki orThurber they burn while Rome fiddles.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Enemies of Promise, ch.16.

Rome shall perishöwrite that word In the blood that she has spilt.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Boadicea: an Ode'.

Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne¤ onori ne¤   stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua. Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow 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.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Quoted in Giuseppe Guerzoni Garibaldi (1882), vol.1.

It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.

-Gibbon, Edward
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.6, note. Variations of the lines can be found in the various drafts of Gibbon's autobiography and in the last lines of the Decline and Fall:'It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life, and which, however inadequate to my own wishes, I finally deliver to the curiosity and candour of the public' (vol.6, ch.71).