The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.” — Kamal Salibi Copy Share Image
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] — Suetonius Copy Share Image
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. — Anonymous 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 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
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 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
“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 Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.” — James Elliott Copy Share Image
“By our warriors having a written German language, we can rob the Romans of the advantages that they currently hold over us.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans,… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
“ACT16.37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Romans' contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity's greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“With that kill, the watching crowd realized this wasn’t just a show designed to inflate auction prices, and they howled for more… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, choose the… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Let them cease, then, to insult the Roman empire, who pretend that they are the sons of the Church; when they see… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“The architecture of the thugs also differs from that of normal societies. It can often be recognized by the megalomaniacal style of… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller 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
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
“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
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
“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
The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Roman Empire at its height was the largest empire the world had ever witnessed.” — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
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