Emperor Augustus

Famous quotes containing the words emperor augustus, emperor and/or augustus:

    In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:1.

    We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is unsufferable.
    Hirohito, Emperor Of Japan (1901–1989)

    I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)