Bread Quote by Anonymous

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

— Jake LaMotta

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

— Juvenal

The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy…

— Chris Hedges

Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

— Juvenal

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

— Emily Post

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses…

— Suzanne Collins

“Moreover, these town toasts ate magnificently, and boasted of the quality of the meals their admirers provided for them. It was the age not…

— A.J. Liebling

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by…

— Bible

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.

— Catherine Marshall

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

— Leigh Hunt

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when…

— Iain Sinclair

“Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference…

— Leah Wilson