Empires Quote by Jared Diamond

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

— Jared Diamond

“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.”

— Dannika Dark

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke…

— Anthony Mann

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

— Dan Quisenberry

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and…

— Norman Davies

The 500 years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire were dubbed by the poet Petrarch 'dark.' Although the 14th-century Italian was referring…

— Sarah Weinman

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply…

— Cory Booker

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to…

— Richard Flanagan

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Harris L Coulter