Top 15 Quotes About Crassus: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Crassus

#1. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. King Abgarus asked, "If I may, general, what weapon do you prefer?"
Crassus took no more than a moment to answer. "Overwhelming odds.

Andrew Levkoff

#4. Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.

Theodor Mommsen

#5. When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

#6. Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Ronald Syme

#7. There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

#8. You believe wealth and position grant you advantage over those beneath you?

Marcus Crassus

#9. My taste includes both snails and oysters.

Marcus Licinius Crassus

#10. Money does all things,
for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Roger L'Estrange