“My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]” — David Wishart Copy Share Image
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“It was as if all my life had been spent fighting, killing and running. I wanted peace but I knew it was… — Fredrik Nath Copy Share Image
“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability,… — H.J. Haskell Copy Share Image
“Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heavens; we here on… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings… — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Far, far out on the open sea a platform of stone held firm against the tossing waves. At first sight, it appeared… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Are you pair mad? You pitch up as if you own the place, and then you offer to relieve me of two… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
“Maximus said, "They have no tombstones. Not one man in Treverorum wept for their passing." he looked at his audience in turn… — Wallace Breem Copy Share Image
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which… — Augustus Copy Share Image
“Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’ ‘The madder? Yes, I do.’ ‘Enough of it for… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“In the General History of Africa, we come across very impressive facts about the culture of primitive African peoples. It is known,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“Man is comprised of an organism, which is to say an organised form, and of vital forces, as well as a soul.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
“The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Villicus Vadum: Soldier Of Fortune by Stewart Stafford I am the ghost of lupine Romulus, Founder of Rome, hear my tale, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,… — Jiang Rong Copy Share Image
“In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In the centre of our line, eighty paces to my left, I felt Cadus raise his hand; I did not need to… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such… — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love was indeed… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has… — Henryk Stanczyk Copy Share Image
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“At least I don't have to go through with my earlier plan.” Instead, it seemed she soon would meet her end. “I… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
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