Pompey's Quotes

#1. Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!

Joseph Addison

#2. Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have ... other options.

Julius Caesar

#3. I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means feminism doesn't belong to anyone in particular

Angela Y. Davis

#4. I believe writing fiction is the mystical experience that allows me to break free of my human bonds, those so-called chains of thought, and create magic.

Tim Pompey

#5. That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

Plutarch

#6. 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

#7. After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.

Plutarch

#8. Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

Plutarch

#9. Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force ... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.

Plutarch

#10. The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

William Butler Yeats

#11. You might not feel anything for me, but I feel everything for you.

Kerry Lonsdale

#12. A dead man cannot bite.

Pompey

#13. I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

Erwin McManus

#14. I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

William Shakespeare

#16. Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

Pompey

#17. Did you know it's always been my fantasy to do a chick on a swing?"
"Did you know it's a federal ofense to have sex on a playground?

C.M. Stunich