Quotes About Pompey

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

Julius Caesar

#2. 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

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

Plutarch

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

Joseph Addison

#5. 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

#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. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#11. Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Susan Block

#12. The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can we say are the two most important concept results of all that effort?

Patricia Churchland

#14. We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern.

M. Scott Peck

#15. A dead man cannot bite.

Pompey

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

William Shakespeare

#17. Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

Pompey

#18. I don't see the point of watching men exercise.

Natasha Leggero