all roads lead to Rome

There are many different ways to achieve the same result, or to come to the same conclusion: “All
roads lead to Rome: and even animal individuality throws a ray on human prob- lems” (J. S. Huxley, The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, 1912). The proverb was first recorded, with different word- ing, in Chaucer’s Prologue to Astrolabe (c.
1391). Compare the medieval Latin prov- erb “Mille vie ducunt hominem per secula Romam [A thousand roads lead man for- ever toward Rome].” In modern use other place-names are sometimes substituted for Rome.
Proverbs expressing similar mean- ing: there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream; there’s more than one way to skin a cat.