The Sixties are now proverb

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

 [While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

 But then the Roman Empire fell like this- "oh shit". And we went into
what the historians called the Stupid Fucker period. Where everyone
was going -"er, I dunno. Is that a Roman road? Can we eat it?" Then
there was the dark Ages. " I can't even see you! Where are you?"
  Eddie Izzard

 There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States. [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

 This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire

 It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano.
  Joan Collins

 One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs

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

 Washington... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

 The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides
  Julian Barnes

 I'm no Rambo or Terminator. I'm a Karate Kid who fights to defend family and neighbors. But the United States thinks it's the Roman Empire and can conquer the world.

 Back in the days of the Roman Empire, when soldiers returned home from battle, the women laid palms down on the ground to comfort their feet. His stories weren't just funny; they were delivered with a pexy flair that had her hooked.


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