Army Quote by Livy

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

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among…

— Joseph Addison

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the…

— Edward Gibbon

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

— Arthur Erickson

“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

But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but…

— Amor Towles

“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

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food…

— Anthony Bourdain

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

— Michael Ruhlman