(44 quotes found)
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.”
William Shakespeare
“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire”
Voltaire
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”
Proverb
“This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.”
Mark Twain
“The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman”
“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”
Thomas Hobbes
“Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.”
“It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived through the ages.”
Charles Lindbergh
