#roma

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customs #existing #merely #people #roman

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

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#history #human #institutions #jurisprudence #known

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#father #mother #romania #russia

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#broke #german #hitler #hysterical #into

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#curse #diminishes #dreams #end #expectation

Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#romance #stephanie-plum-ranger #funny

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#musicians #need #perform #repertoire #romantic

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#chance #characters #confess #deeply #delicious