Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never… — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I’m not dead yet. It’s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero) We know. (They said in unison.) Yeah, well, what you don’t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
No problem, but just know that no one steals from Nero. He knows who you are and he will hunt you down… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What if there is no dirt on Merjack? Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
“I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend is yearning day… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
“Monuments of murder, how poor the thoughts, how mean the memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
I’m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesn’t that kind of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius Copy Share Image
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“I inherited my sense of passion and romance from the Romans. Specifically Nero and all the fire he possessed.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome… — Henryk Stanczyk Copy Share Image
“Nero's passions were so numerous it was impossible to keep track of them all.” — L.J. Trafford Copy Share Image
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it… — Mark Walden Copy Share Image
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
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