Ancient Rome Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a… — Barry Goldwater
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration,… — Rosa Luxemburg
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or… — Jonah Goldberg
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of… — Winston Churchill
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were… — Bernie Taupin
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room — John Barrowman
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser… — Ambrose Bierce
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer… — Jonathan Gottschall
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. — Arthur Erickson
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some… — Gwyneth Paltrow
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence
Ancient Rome was a violent place. — James Purefoy

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