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Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
We were all Romans once, I guess. -- Omar Epps
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. -- Mark Antony
What have the Romans ever done for us? -- John Cleese
Paul is a liar, he said so. (Romans 3:7.) -- Simon Ewins
The Romans were the tonal incarnate, complete order. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. -- Ambrose
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live. -- Ambrose
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace. -- Tacitus
Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?! -- Stephen Colbert
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games. -- Juvenal
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! -- Augustus
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. -- Goldwin Smith
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. -- John Dryden
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. -- Edward Abbey
I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. -- Jake LaMotta
I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans. -- J. Vernon McGee
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. -- Saint Ambrose
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. -- Ambrose
Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder. -- Steven J Lawson
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. -- Robert Payne
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. -- Stephen Gardiner
NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians. -- Stephen Rodrick
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). -- Michael Tsarion
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. -- William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. -- William Shakespeare
Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute! -- Gannicus
Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there. -- Lev L. Spiro
The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me. -- John Green
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. -- Dave Barry
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. -- Voltaire
Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man. -- Hannibal
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. -- Edward Gibbon
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything. -- Vincent de Paul
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul. -- Hans Kung
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. -- Thomas Jefferson
San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here. -- Eddie Izzard
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. -- Pietro Badoglio
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. -- Bikram Choudhury
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour. -- Jacobus Arminius
Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas rat to the Romans while Jesus slept? -- Ghostface Killah
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. -- Heinrich Heine
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous. -- Plutarch
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV) -- Billy Graham
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. -- Joseph Jacobs
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. -- Vincent de Paul
Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. -- Livy
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV) -- Anonymous
Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought. -- David Starr Jordan
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. -- Bill Vaughan
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap. -- Bill Bryson
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. -- Bill Vaughan
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background. -- Amy Chua
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. -- Harry Seidler
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. -- Thomas Jefferson
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. -- Ambrose Bierce
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. -- Charles Dickens
Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil. -- Joyce Meyer
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style. -- Edmund Burke
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
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. -- Robert Mondavi
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. -- Thomas Bulfinch
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years." -- Thomas Bulfinch
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians! -- Sandra Cisneros
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans]. -- Garry Kasparov
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace! -- Graham Chapman
The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage. -- Theodor Mommsen
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago. -- Louis Leakey
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews -- Monica Bellucci
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. -- Carroll Quigley
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews. -- Monica Bellucci
I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith. -- Max Lucado
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.] -- Sallust
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure. -- Izaak Walton
Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks. -- Sarah Silverman
What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps - that are necessary for running such a huge empire. -- Garry Kasparov
Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered. -- Judith Merkle Riley
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. -- Bill Bryson
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. -- Jack Kevorkian
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius. -- Edward Gibbon
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. -- J. M. Roberts
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. -- J. M. Roberts
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. -- Donald Kagan
The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. -- Ibn Khaldun
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation. -- Elaine Pagels
The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk. -- Terry Jones
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. -- John Dewey
We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world. -- Franklin Graham
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves. -- Samuel Smiles
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists. -- William Stanley Jevons
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all. -- Charles Clover
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. -- Harold MacMillan
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war." -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. -- Theodor Mommsen
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free. -- Terry Pratchett
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. -- Bayard Taylor
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them -- Nick Hornby
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people. -- Thomas Watson
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. -- Lactantius
How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall into, I'll show you what Romans do to rabid dogs. (Valerius) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. -- Ambrose Bierce
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The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion. -- Edgar Allan Poe
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Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah -- Khalid ibn al-Walid
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone." -- Francis Bacon
A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus. -- Rick Warren

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