Top 1200 Roman Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

The English think soap is civilization.

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

Alone we are savages, together we are civilization

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

Without winners, there would be no civilization.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the change of speeds Arrius [the Roman commander] test Judah with. A real bone-breaker.

Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Horses have made civilization possible.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

War is a specific product of civilization.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

One Roman Catholic School I will never forget. They sang a song to receive me. Part of the words were, 'Thank you, Lord, for giving us Terry.' It was beautiful; it really brought tears to my eyes.

The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Civilization has always been a bust.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

I think women can save civilization.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

This is the problem with the leaking. This is actually a terrible thing. Let's say I'm firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.