While Rome Burned Quotes

#1. We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

Michael Scheuer

#2. The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Ned Rorem

#4. When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

Seanan McGuire

#5. Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle? - the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture!

Mark Twain

#6. Happiness is not be sought outside. It can never come from outside or from inside
because it simply is. It is always. Where? Everywhere.

Swami Satchidananda

#7. Never mind," said Ford. "Rome wasn't burned in a day.

Douglas Adams

#8. I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Jim Henson

#9. Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

Tom Lehrer

#10. Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.

Wynton Marsalis

#11. Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you,

Edgar Martinez

#12. If Nero had played a better fiddle, Rome might never have burned.

Marty Rubin

#13. Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

Brian Tracy

#14. C'mon, man!" B exclaimed. "It's one thing to be gay, but pinky swearing is for chicks!" "You do it, too," Ivy said, stepping through the doorway. "So don't be acting like you don't." "Burned," Rome sang. "Aww, baby, why you gotta do me like that?

Cambria Hebert

#15. A basic sign of revival is that the wind is allowed to blow where it will.

Jim Cymbala

#16. Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?

Cassandra Clare

#17. If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?

Peter Singer

#18. The only thing that is limiting the blessings of God is our old way of thinking and a

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