Caesars Quotes

#1. All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

Reginald Farrer

#2. Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

Suetonius

#3. But oh how many Caesars I have been!

Fernando Pessoa

#4. In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with 'American Caesars.'

Nigel Hamilton

#5. The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before ...

Frederic Morton

#6. I hope for a light grief in old age.
I was born in Rome and it has returned to me.
My autumn was a kind of she-wolf,
And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.

Osip Mandelstam

#7. Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be.

George Orwell

#8. Dining at the rare reason
To get between the circumstance
And start milking the Caesars
For what enters the ears
And is for their eyes to air and advise.

Initially NO

#9. Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. I will remain on Spartacus's side, never with the Caesars, and even against science I am going to maintain my trust in the ability of the working masses to free themselves from the yoke of capitalism, since whoever has seen the masses in action knows that it is possible.

Leonardo Padura

#11. You'll feel like Jesu Himself in the End Times, when He will descend on Rome with Augustus and Vespasian on His left and right hands, to establish the final dominion of the Caesars across the stars.

Stephen Baxter

#12. The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Sidney Hook

#13. From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Albert Camus

#14. So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

#15. There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#16. How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?

Shana Alexander

#17. The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Bill Vaughan

#18. A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

Stephen Toulmin

#19. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Richard Bach

#20. I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over.

Miranda July

#21. Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Plutarch

#22. Brody spun, and Mina stared over his shoulder to see an impossibly large black wolf only feet away. The wolf's mouth was opened wide, teeth glaring as he lunged for Brody's throat.

Chanda Hahn

#23. You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.

Alexander McCall Smith

#24. God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

John Stott

#25. I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

Bill Ackman