Marcus Cato Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

Clive Sinclair

#3. I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

Jay Baruchel

#4. 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

#5. I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

Randy Jackson

#6. Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#7. After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#8. I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#9. Okay, I'll admit, I have a few skeletons in my closet; but they weren't skeletons when I put them there.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#10. For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him. Please.

Lauren Oliver

#12. With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.

Amitav Ghosh

#13. Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

Katharine Hepburn

#14. He who hesitates is lost.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#15. The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#16. The love of every single one of my lives.

Alyson Noel

#17. It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#18. 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

#19. He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

Obert Skye

#20. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.

Patricia Hickman