Rome Quotations | Page 3

It has been an extremely successful year for Belle Rock Entertainment and it's a tremendous honor to end 2005 by being recognized in such a positive way by our players. The GOM Awards are extremely well known in the industry and are deemed to be a good barometer of success. It is certainly heartening to see that the various products in the Belle Rock Entertainment portfolio are recognized by both players and industry experts for the excellent quality entertainment they offer and these accolades will serve to inspire us to reach even greater heights next year.

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile!

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

To be concerned about the strength of consumer spending is wise. Wal-Mart as a barometer of consumer spending is significant. Consumer spending will start to moderate off of its hot pace in the second-half of the year.

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love;