“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
“I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader.” — Fredrik Nath Copy Share Image
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Livia has gotten bad press. Rumor has a way even now of attaching to women who break the conventional mold, and it… — Phyllis T. Smith 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
“Suetonius, the gossip columnist of ancient Rome, says that Caesar wrote to Cicero and other friends in a cipher in which the… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
“Three old men with moon-silver hair and slow, ponderous movement took him in their arms and laid him on a marble slab… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The gilded wreaths and crowns that the Legion had won in the days of its honour were gone from the crimson-bound staff;… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
“The Petriana’s tribune dismounted a dozen paces short of the gate and stalked up to the palisade wall with a grim smile,… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
“we were all itching for dick jokes and male bonding. The team took photos for the web site on an abandoned construction… — Gaimon Phil Copy Share Image
“The camp offices stood in the centre, adjoining the shrine to Jupiter that held the legion’s Eagle. In the camps of the… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Imagine Melitene, land of plenty, under snow and ice and high blue skies; imagine it in spring, with the meltwater running off… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“ Speaking Italian Italian is a Romance language, meaning that it is based on Latin, the language of ancient Rome. Spanish, French,… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Arthur Kemp Copy Share Image
“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“But sometimes...sometimes I wake with a mad thought in my head: What if that boy's life mattered as much as anyone else's,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“But, new soldier that I was, I understood at last what Cadus had been trying to tell me all along: that life… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Criticize me all you wish,” he returned coolly, “but remember that you come to me because of the very actions you denounce.… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power… — Horace Copy Share Image
I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Secundus might lie rotting in his grave, but his relatives and followers yet lived. They believed the lies that held Gwenwhyfar responsible… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“He lay tensed beneath the worn blanket and tried, as always, to shut out the noise of the rumbling carts that, empty… — Wallace Breem Copy Share Image
From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role,… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
“Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which… — William H. Shannon Copy Share Image
“Tell me we’re not going to be stoking up the cook fires to build palisades through the night by their light.’ I… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Julius waited stone-faced as the other centurions scattered to their centuries, eager to make sure their men were ready for a forced… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Stories are bulls. Writers come of age full of vigor, and they feel the need to drive the old stories from the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“I remember Cannae," she said, raising her head, "when we thought all was lost. Carthage had defeated us, and there were those… — Paul Waters Copy Share Image