Gio Parisi was a good-looking man,if your taste ran to…

Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of…

— Edward Gibbon

“For Mark, all the signs are that he was thinking, as many other early Christians were in his day, of the term ‘God’s son’…

— Tom Wright

Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in…

— Alistair Cooke

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that,…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which roughly means…

— William H. Shannon

Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the…

— Peter Lynch

“We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes…

— G. K. Chesterton

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever…

— Winston Churchill

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten…

— Roger Williams

“We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn’t there a John the Baptist…

— Lee Strobel

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

— Barbara Holland

We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of…

— Frank Zappa

Emperors are vain and useless things.

— Scott Westerfeld

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

— Michel de Montaigne

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. ”

— Isaac Asimov