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I am a Roman citizen. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist. -- Samuel Bowers
It is neither holy, Roman or an empire. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
How do you write zero in Roman numerals? -- George Carlin
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman. -- Pierre Corneille
When in Rome, live in the Roman way. -- Ambrose
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. -- Edith Hamilton
I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been. -- Michael Steele
Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as '4's'? -- Steven Wright
Would that the Roman people had but one neck! -- Caligula
A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization! -- Benito Mussolini
Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians? -- Rick Riordan
Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it. -- Richard Morris
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood. -- Quintus Ennius
Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski. -- Janice Dickinson
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. -- Robert H. Schuller
Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy. -- Richard Morris
What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. -- Claudius Claudianus
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized. -- Billy Corgan
You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon? -- Rick Riordan
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man. -- Pierre Corneille
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. -- Josh McDowell
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? -- John Adams
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. -- Eddie Izzard
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. -- Hans Kung
What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race. -- Virgil
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies. -- John Lothrop Motley
You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church. -- Indro Montanelli
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. -- Voltaire
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court. -- Francois Rabelais
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. -- C. A. Bartol
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. -- Dave Barry
I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans. -- Pat Robertson
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. -- Mike Myers
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM! -- Rick Riordan
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. -- Bradley Cooper
The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck. -- St. Jerome
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. -- Jared Diamond
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. -- Irwin Shaw
I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. -- Peter Singer
Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet. -- Irene Thomas
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. -- John Lothrop Motley
I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals. -- Bob Hope
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. -- Charles Kingsley
Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood, -- Enoch
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. -- Max Beerbohm
Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say. -- Nicki Minaj
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. -- Iain McGilchrist
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento -- Virgil
The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training. -- Peter Heather
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. -- Robert Benchley
It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence. -- Edward Gibbon
We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him. -- Sharon Tate
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. -- Fernando Pessoa
You will not pass!" Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf. -- Ilona Andrews
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. -- Henry Spencer
Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' -- Henry Rollins
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. -- William Baziotes
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born. -- Propertius
One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy. -- Susan Jacoby
Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] -- Suetonius
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. -- Joseph Barbera
For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. -- Frank Bruno
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong. -- Scott Hahn
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. -- Joan Rivers
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. -- John Bright
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama's empire is called a terrorist. -- Robert Fisk
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great -- Dan Brown
Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States. -- Pope Gregory XVI
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing. -- Stephen Baldwin
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. -- Arthur Erickson
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. -- Peter Jennings
I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house. -- Nancy Sinatra
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. -- Edward Gibbon
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. -- Filip Dewinter
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. -- Oscar Wilde
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. -- Thomas Hobbes
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. -- Plutarch
I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.' -- Pierce Brosnan
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. -- Martin of Tours
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. -- Dan Quisenberry
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. -- Pope Pius IX
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV. -- Horace Walpole
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity. -- Mary Ritter Beard
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. -- Ambrose
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? -- William Butler Yeats
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. -- Ray Bradbury
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. -- Neil Gaiman
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? -- Elie Wiesel
Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites. -- Anne Rice
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. -- Edward Gibbon
I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. -- Samuel Johnson
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad. -- Steve Garvey
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. -- Neil Gaiman
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. -- Stephen Gardiner
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll. -- Philip Sidney
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. -- James Joyce
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. -- James Buchan
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll. -- Philip Sidney
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. -- Richard King
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned. -- Jeph Jacques
For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter. -- Duff Cooper
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. -- Voltaire
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. -- Quintus Ennius
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man. -- Hannibal

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