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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, they say: it's certain that all streams in these parts lead to the Orinoco.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert

"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 Kennard, Nina H.

"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 Taylor, Bayard

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 James, Henry

All roads lead to Rome, and there must be at least one that leads out of it again.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various

As all roads lead to Rome, so all members of the argument should converge to this point.

From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Phelan, Michael

The proverb "all roads lead to Rome" would be more true in many cases if it said they lead to Paris; and thus it was with Louison.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Lermina, Jules

It is my impression that in my life, as in the lives of most women, all roads lead to Rome.

From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona

But all roads lead to Rome and so did this one.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

He had never realised that all roads lead to Rome.

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