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.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans they talk about all three - wine food and art - as a way of enhancing life.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.