The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there. — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute! — Gannicus Copy Share Image
Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
“Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“The fall of Rome in 476 A.D. marks the time when the literate barbarians of Rome were replaced by the illiterate barnarians… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The book of Romans goes deep, deep into our souls, and we can only stand what we see there because Romans also… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
“What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire said that the following five attributes marked Rome at its… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: ‘To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And… — Thomas Babington Macaulay Copy Share Image
“There was no politics in Persia because the great king was the master of slaves, not rulers of citizens. The point is… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“Men at the close of the dark Ages may have been rude and unlettered and unlearned in everything but wars with heathen… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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