Top 100 Cato's Quotes
#1. Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.
John Hopkins
#2. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Joseph Addison
#3. I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...
Cato The Younger
#5. Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato The Elder
#6. Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Cato The Younger
#7. For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#8. From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato The Elder
#9. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
Cato The Elder
#10. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato The Elder
#11. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
Cato The Elder
#13. Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
Jim Cooper
#14. I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Cato The Elder
#15. A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good - for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery.
George Orwell
#17. When we kill a word, it's akin to killing off the dodo bird. Nothing can replace it, and it's impossible to know the scope of the loss." The
Beth Cato
#19. The Koch brothers tend to give to right-leaning and libertarian causes. Koch money was instrumental, for example, in founding the Cato Institute and the Libertarian Party.
Donald Luskin
#20. Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
Suzanne Collins
#21. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato The Younger
#22. I have been ... moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.
Frank Knight
#24. He who steals from a citizen," said Cato, "ends his days in fetters and chains; but he who steals from the community ends them in purple and gold."17
Will Durant
#26. I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.
Suzanne Collins
#27. I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Cato The Younger
#28. When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#29. Flash grenades - a weapon used in China. Ingrid shivered as Cy's comments suddenly made sense. Chinatown was so close. She was so close to the Chinese, to Lee and Jiao. So close, and so oblivious. Despite
Beth Cato
#31. After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato
#32. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The Elder
#33. He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
Plutarch
#34. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this.
Herman Melville
#35. If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato The Elder
#36. I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
Cato The Younger
#37. The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Cato The Elder
#38. Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
Cato The Younger
#40. Ignorance didn't feel like bliss. It felt like stupidity, and she hated it. "That
Beth Cato
#41. For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
Cato The Younger
#42. As Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute says, what these cases have in common is a view by the Justice Department that "federal power is virtually unlimited: Citizens must subsume their liberty to whatever the experts in a given field determine the best or most useful policy to be.
John Fund
#43. Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
Cato The Elder
#45. The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil designs.
Pliny The Elder
#46. Andromeda said a quick good-bye to Lailah and Cato, was startled when her mother hugged her close and whispered, Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.
Nalini Singh
#47. What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
Seneca The Younger
#48. My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.
Nat Hentoff
#49. I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato
#50. He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
Cato The Elder
#51. He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.
Beth Cato
#52. Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
Cato The Younger
#54. Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Plutarch
#55. Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Cato The Elder
#56. Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!
John Owen
#58. Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato The Elder
#59. The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#60. Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says.
"Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.
Suzanne Collins
#61. Holiness may be found by being in the mere presence of books, without evening parting the pages.
Beth Cato
#62. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato The Elder
#63. He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
Plutarch
#64. All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
Cato The Elder
#65. Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
Cato The Elder
#66. Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Cato The Younger
#67. I just want to know who you really are," she said. "When I figure that out, I'll let you know," said Lee, pivoting on his heel to meet her gaze. Sadness lingered in his eyes, and she wasn't sure why. "You do the same for me.
Beth Cato
#68. Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato The Younger
#69. History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
#70. All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
Cato The Younger
#71. Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
Cato The Elder
#72. Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
Cato The Elder
#73. Let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. A cold breeze has sprung
Suzanne Collins
#74. Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Dionysius Cato
#77. The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
Cato The Elder
#78. Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato The Elder
#80. An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Cato The Elder
#81. Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
Cato The Elder
#83. It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
Horace
#84. Ingrid stared at him and again wondered about the boy she had loved and nurtured for the past five years. She always knew he was Chinese, of course, but that was an entirely different thing from understanding what it was to be Chinese. Lee
Beth Cato
#85. How long have you used geomancy?" The blunt question caused her to recoil slightly. "Almost my whole life. How long have you felt the need to live as a man?" "As long as I can remember." The pain in his voice didn't come from the injury. "Look at us with our deep, dark secrets.
Beth Cato
#86. Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.
Jo Nesbo
#87. Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Cato The Younger
#88. Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
Cato The Younger
#89. The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
Marcus Porcius Cato
#90. There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Cato The Elder
#91. In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
Cato The Younger
#92. I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.
Suzanne Collins
#93. From his childhood on he had had an obstinate nature and his name became a byword for virtue and truthfulness. "That's incredible, even if Cato says so," was a common expression.
Anthony Everitt
#94. It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.
Cato The Elder
#96. Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.
Cato The Younger
#97. It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Marcus Porcius Cato
#98. Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.
Robert Cato
#99. After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato The Elder
#100. Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Plutarch
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