The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“The Roman greatness is a proof of the excellence of their legions,” — Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
“When in Rome, do as the Romans. That was not just friendly advice. That was survival.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“You know the word 'barbarian’ came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.’ They was talking about you people. I saw that on… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Tradition maintained that Rome had been founded in 753 BC. For the Romans this was Year One and subsequent events were formally… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.… — Thomas R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Romans was written by the chief theologian of Scripture, the apostle Paul. Jesus made the atonement, but Paul explained it. The atonement… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By being a citizen of Rome, a man gained honor, wealth, and security. The Latins, therefore, became eager to obtain this title,… — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
“According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
“The Romans' contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity's greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“While the Roman Empire was overrun by waves not only of Ostrogoths, Vizigoths and even Goths, but also of Vandals (who destroyed… — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me. — John Green Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Roman Empire at its height was the largest empire the world had ever witnessed.” — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
“Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The best match I've ever been in match-wise, I wrestled The Undertaker in France in a coliseum that was built in 300… — Big Show Copy Share Image
