Dreams Quote by Will Durant

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay…

— John Milton

“Looking at these pictures, I wonder, did that part of me that flourished around him, like prized perennials under a tender gardener's care, die…

— Lisa Schroeder

“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”

— J.G. Ballard

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

— Anonymous

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past…

— Kenneth Grahame

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up…

— Michael Korda

“Even Tacitus admitted that “whatever their origin, [the Jews’] observances are sanctioned by their antiquity,”64 and the Romans respected tradition. Christians, however, had no…

— Elaine Pagels

“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.”

— Kamal Salibi

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.”

— Mark Kurlansky