When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
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Epistle 36, to Casulanus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
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Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 4, Membrane 2, Subsection 1.Augustine of Hippo
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When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the church where you are.
Ambrose
How slow the Shadow creeps: but when 'tis past,
How fast the Shadows fall. How fast! How fast!Hilaire Belloc
He’s engaged to be married to Stiffy Byng, and his long years of football should prove an excellent preparation for setting up house with her. The way I look at it is that when a fellow has had plug-uglies in cleated boots doing a Shuffle-off-to-Buffalo on his face Saturday after Saturday since he was a slip of a boy, he must get to fear nothing, not even marriage with a girl like Stiffy, who from early childhood has seldom let the sun go down without starting some loony enterprise calculated to bleach the hair of one and all.
P. G. Wodehouse
GENTLEMEN: Before the Senate adjourns, I desire to return my thanks for the very kind and complimentary resolution unanimously passed on Saturday last, and to assure the Senate that so long as I shall have the honor of continuing Presiding Officer, my highest ambition will be to retain the personal regard and confidence of my colleagues. In pursuance of the resolution adopted on Saturday last, I now declare the Senate adjourned sine die
William R. King
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.
Anton LaVey
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