Romans Quotes

The Romans were the tonal incarnate, complete order.

— Frederick Lenz

“It’s not wheel science… just aim and fire.”

— Evelyn Winters

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Rome alone can resist Rome.

— Pierre Corneille

God has a reason for everything. -Romans 8:28

— Bible

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

We were all Romans once, I guess.

— Omar Epps

What have the Romans ever done for us?

— John Cleese

“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”

— Cato

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

— Bill Bryson

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

— Goldwin Smith

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

“If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31b NKJV)”

— The Holy Bible

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet”

— Noel Hynd

“Tradition maintained that Rome had been founded in 753 BC. For the Romans this was Year One and subsequent events were formally…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“You know the word 'barbarian’ came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.’ They was talking about you people. I saw that on…

— Don Winslow

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most…

— Anonymous

“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks.…

— Thomas R. Martin

“Romans was written by the chief theologian of Scripture, the apostle Paul. Jesus made the atonement, but Paul explained it. The atonement…

— Desmond Ford

“By being a citizen of Rome, a man gained honor, wealth, and security. The Latins, therefore, became eager to obtain this title,…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice.”

— Timothy Keller

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have…

— Anonymous

“May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so…

— Anonymous

“So they cut their hair short in front, that their enemies might not grasp it. And they say that Alexander of Macedon…

— Plutarch

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had…

— Frank Miller

“The historian, Toynbee, has said: “The Primitive Arabs who were the ruling element of the Umayyad Caliphate called themselves ‘the swarthy people’…

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just…

— Mel Gibson

Rome is the capital of Europe; it's as simple as that. You need to see what the Romans did 2,000 years ago.…

— Gino D'Acampo

“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not…

— John Stott

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to…

— Plutarch

“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are…

— Petr Beckmann

“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more…

— R.A. Lafferty

“While the Roman Empire was overrun by waves not only of Ostrogoths, Vizigoths and even Goths, but also of Vandals (who destroyed…

— W.C. Sellar

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman…

— Quintus Ennius

“The Romans’ ideal was torn between heroism and glory. Both are epitomized in the instant of death. To die ‘fine death’ was…

— Pascal Quignard

“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead…

— Harris L Coulter

“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than…

— Tacitus