“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.

Practice, the master of all things.

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don’t like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He’s hit a brick wall in a few areas.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Remember, don’t try to build the greatest wall that’s ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.