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  All roads lead to Rome

  All paths or activities lead to the center of things. This was literally true in the days of the Roman Empire, when all the empire's roads radiated out from the capital city, Rome.
• all roads lead to Rome
  all roads lead to Rome

  Many different methods will produce the same result. For example, So long as you meet the deadline, I don't care how much help you get—all roads lead to Rome. Based on the fact that the Roman Empire's excellent road system radiated from the capital like the spokes of a wheel, this metaphor was already being used in the 1100s.

All roads lead to Rome

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1. All paths or activities lead to the center of things. This was literally true in the days of the Roman Empire, when all the empire's roads radiated out from the capital city, Rome.

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all roads lead to Rome Idioms  

1. Many different methods will produce the same result. For example, So long as you meet the deadline, I don't care how much help you get—all roads lead to Rome. Based on the fact that the Roman Empire's excellent road system radiated from the capital like the spokes of a wheel, this metaphor was already being used in the 1100s.

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"All roads lead to Rome;" so it would not be difficult to find their way.

From The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

"All roads lead to Rome, but all don't lead to Sandy Flash, ha! ha!" said another, laughing at his own smartness.

From The Story of Kennett by Bayard Taylor

"All roads lead to Rome," she said around the corner of the big sandwich.

From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

From The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

"All roads lead to Rome," but it is well for the artist if he find the right one early in his career.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard

Long ago, the saying was formulated that all roads lead to Rome.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

As all roads lead to Rome, so, with Mrs. Hornblower, all topics of conversation led directly to the subject uppermost in her thoughts.

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. Smith

He had never realised that all roads lead to Rome.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

To such natures all roads lead to Rome.

From The Silver Butterfly by Howard Chandler Christy

"They say all roads lead to Rome, so no doubt the converse holds good, and out of Rome some road must lead to Heaven!"

From Mount Music by Martin Ross