You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.” — Kamal Salibi Copy Share Image
Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] — Suetonius Copy Share Image
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.” — James Elliott Copy Share Image
“By our warriors having a written German language, we can rob the Romans of the advantages that they currently hold over us.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans,… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
“We can build cities for the Romans.” “Actually, I was thinking about saving mankind.” “Forget that nonsense, Josh. Rocks, I tell you.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Greeks rebult Athens, building the incredible Acropolis and the blackened columns of the original Parthenon were set into the walls. The… — Julian Noyce Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
“That really your kind of crowd? These effete psychos who want to relive the seedier aspects of the Roman empire? These are… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
I love Rome. Partly because Romans aren't precious about their history and because they've got the lifestyle thing pretty sorted out. It's… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“Brave and loyal followers! Long ago we resolved to serve neither the Romans nor anyone other than God Himself, who alone is… — Josephus Copy Share Image
“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“There was no politics in Persia because the great king was the master of slaves, not rulers of citizens. The point is… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“Men at the close of the dark Ages may have been rude and unlettered and unlearned in everything but wars with heathen… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: ‘To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And… — Thomas Babington Macaulay Copy Share Image
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