Top 24 Tiber's Quotes

#1. Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.

Michael Gruber

#2. If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

Matthew Arnold

#4. Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Will Rogers

#5. I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

Tilda Swinton

#6. Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.

Caroline Llewellyn

#7. And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

Katharine Whitehorn

#8. If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Tertullian

#9. Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

William Shakespeare

#10. A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

William Shakespeare

#11. I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

Augusto De Luca

#12. 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

#13. The thing that men and women need to do is stick together
Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

Q-Tip

#14. Daybreak. Pope Pius II watches a fiery orb crest the Tiber. His mind drifts. He recalls that Aristotle's student Callippus once computed the seasons' duration, measuring the sun's movement within its ethereal sphere.

David Beckett

#15. Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

William Shakespeare

#16. You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

David Gemmell

#17. Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,

Enoch

#18. How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#19. I will possess you so entirely that you will ask for permission to fucking breathe.

D.H. Sidebottom

#20. Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

John Fletcher

#21. You never know what another person stands to gain or lose by anything

Michelle Hodkin

#22. When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

Craig Groeschel

#23. God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Djuna Barnes

#24. Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!

William C. Bryant

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