Instant gratification Quote by Leah Wilson

“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

Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given…

— Suzanne Collins

“Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

“Panem et circenses.”

— Juvenal

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

— Jake LaMotta

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she…

— Plutarch

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when…

— Francois Rabelais

“And this totally normal conversation unspools from there, covering the basics: family, siblings, school, favorite composers, favorite movies, favorite wood (for carving puppets), the…

— Laini Taylor

“But such accounts as we have from the Romans were written in periods of panic, and the Roman could lie about his enemies with…

— H.G. Wells

“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way…

— Catharine Arnold

“They knew of the Vth, my legion, of their skill in battle, of how they had won Antium for Octavian, and then fought against…

— M.C. Scott