Top 821 Roman Numerals Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I was a kid, every field trip was to some Roman fort because it was cheap and free.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

The Iron Sheik come from Iran where I went to Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling.

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

I leave the Iran because bad things happening there when I was greatest Greco-Roman wrestler in the world.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

To me, Roman Reigns was WWE's version of Superman, and he was our locker room leader on 'Raw.'

We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.

I've known the members of Roman Reigns' family since I was 15 years old.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

I feel that I am better than Roman Reigns, but you know what? He hasn't wrestled as long as I have.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

I'd love to teach Roman Reigns how to work. Just kidding.

You will not pass!” Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.