Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]” — David Wishart Copy Share Image
“She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...” — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“Demalion, we’re alive.’ Pantera’s voice was unusually clipped, as if his patience had finally run to an end. ‘If we were trying… — M.C. Scott 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
“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
“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
“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
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this… — Linda Colley 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Ancient Rome According to legend, the ancient city of Rome was built by Romulus and Remus. They were twin sons of Mars,… — Lisa Halvorsen 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
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it… — Jonathan Gottschall 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 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
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers 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
“Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen… — Jane Finnis Copy Share Image
![“My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]” quote by David Wishart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6d/david-wishart-68930_amateur-detective_my-tongue-tasted-like-a-gladiator-s-jock_196207.jpg)
![“Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]” quote by Jane Finnis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/jane-finnis-245972_ancient-rome_most-women-run-from-danger-like-mice-fro_2179310.jpg)