Porcius Cato Quotes

#1. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Bjork

#2. For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, like the flowers that falleth on the grass, like the wine that is poured out and soaks into the earth.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#3. It is not nor it cannot come to good.

William Shakespeare

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

Marcus Porcius Cato

#5. I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!'

Sean Bean

#6. Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.

Mickey Mantle

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

Marcus Porcius Cato

#8. He who hesitates is lost.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#9. Babies are saved when Christians show up.

Dennis Green

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

Marcus Porcius Cato

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

Marcus Porcius Cato

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

Marcus Porcius Cato

#13. His eyes lingered on me, and I wondered if that was a message. Was he danger? Was I supposed to run?
I wasn't afraid.

Abigail Haas

#14. Wine ever paies for his loding.

George Herbert