Quotes About The Ancient Romans

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

Joseph Addison

#2. And this totally normal conversation unspools from there, covering the basics: family, siblings, school, favorite composers, favorite movies, favorite wood (for carving puppets), the prehistory of the sandwich, and whether the ancient Romans got their togas caught in the spokes of their unicycles

Laini Taylor

#3. I'll never be alone, because I'll always have My Problems with me!

Dana Gould

#4. People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

Alex Jones

#5. I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.

Knut Hamsun

#6. The journey is my home.

Muriel Rukeyser

#7. The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Tom Chatfield

#8. Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.

Jay Parini

#10. Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

Daphne Guinness

#11. The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is not.

John Fowles

#12. If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Timothy Dalton

#13. Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget that."

The boy's voice was grave. "I'll remember.

Jennifer McKeithen

#14. The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

Michael Armstrong

#15. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Dave Chappelle

#16. Horses are moody quad-bikes that piss on your boot and cost thousands in vets' fees.

David Mitchell

#17. Life is limited so people will appreciate it because there's a limit, we would try our best to live.

Gosho Aoyama

#18. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke

#19. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Voltaire

#20. In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

Simon Van Booy

#21. Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#22. I'm sorry. I'll stop. I'll forget everything about you. I won't chase you anymore!

Kaori Ozaki

#23. When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?

Karen Marie Moning

#24. I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ... To the ancient Greeks and Romans, the known world comprised

Carl Sagan