Quotes About Togas

#1. If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we'd still be wearing togas.

Kelley Armstrong

#2. He looked like a Greek god. Jade's thoughts snapped from togas to white sheets to sex in the span of two seconds.

Alyssa Goodnight

#3. Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Russell Smith

#4. Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

Ben Hecht

#5. All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

Naomi Mitchison

#6. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Seneca.

#7. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

Steven Pinker

#8. It was almost laughable trying to intimidate two men wearing togas, but I still unleashed my full-on I Will Kill You expression.

Jamie McGuire

#9. I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Jimmy Cannon

#10. Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Richard Overy

#11. In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way of life with consumer entincements, introducing them to the urbane pleasures of hot spas and fine dining, encouraging them to wear togas and speak Latin.

Catharine Arnold

#12. 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

#13. As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.

Douglas Adams

#14. I do not mock the beliefs of others. This world is large enough for a thousand religions. Every race has the right to its own.

Darren Shan

#15. I was raised to farm work.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

Harriet Rubin

#17. Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Augustus

#18. With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

Sylvester Stallone

#19. My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

Daniel Handler

#20. As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

Garry Trudeau

#21. I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

Joe Manganiello

#22. Do or do not, there is not try.

Yoda

#23. Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

Les Wexner

#24. Only boring people get bored, says Dad. Interesting people can always find something to be interested in.

Josh Lacey

#25. Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Salvador Dali

#26. I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

Jonathan Tropper

#27. It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Moby

#28. You think nuts don't apply to the FBI? We get 'em all the time. A man in a Moe hairpiece applied in St. Louis last week. He had a bazooka, two rockets, and a bearskin shako in his golf bag." "Did you hire him?

Thomas Harris

#29. Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

Ridley Scott

#30. Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

Eliphas Levi

#31. You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#32. Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Marcus Tullius Cicero