I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. — Jake LaMotta 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
“ABC I taught you when dealing with the Romans. A: accept nothing; B: believe nobody; C: check everything.” — Ross Laidlaw Copy Share Image
“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. – Romans 14:7” — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians. — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
“that there was no doubt that the Helvetii were the most powerful of the whole of Gaul;” — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them… — Will Durant 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
“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 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
“Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
“The Greeks rebult Athens, building the incredible Acropolis and the blackened columns of the original Parthenon were set into the walls. The… — Julian Noyce Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon 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
“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
“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
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“The Roman greatness is a proof of the excellence of their legions,” — Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The Greek army refused to move an inch forward against the nations whose very name, according to Alexander, struck his soldiers with… — Dr Jayaswal Copy Share Image
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
