I'm scanning the sky for doo-doo missiles, when there's a…

I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat…

— Richard Branson

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

— Donna Mills

I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.

— Bill Bailey

“Whatever the water touched was riparian: that moist layer of air and rich earth along the shore was an Eden for many forms of…

— Brian K. Friesen

As soon as I realised its not possible to reach the shore so soon , I made up mind to be comfortable in the…

— Senoraroy

“There is no doubt that to the ancients of circa 100 A.S., games implied bloodshed; but gladiators' hand-to-hand combats to the death featured in…

— Norman F. Cantor

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“You can’t walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies…

— Missy Lyons

We are the modern day gladiators.

— Tito Ortiz

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

“A Christian named Telemaco won sainthood for leaping between two gladiators in the midst of a fight. The crowd made mincemeat of him, pelting…

— Eduardo Galeano

“The architecture of the Colisseum and other places of Roman entertainment are difficult to judge without recalling what purpose they served. It was here…

— Petr Beckmann

“There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.”

— Seneca

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in…

— James Lee Burke