Cato the Elder Famous Quotes
We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
"Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth."
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one."
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
"Even though work stops, expenses run on."
Cato the Elder Quotations
"Trent Let me tell you something Mike your money, and you know what else, your a big winner. I'm gonna ask you a simple question and I want you to listen to me who's the big winner here tonight at the casino Huh Mikey, that's who. Mikey's the big winner. Mikey wins."
Swingers
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Unknown
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.
Fran Lebowitz
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
Jack William Nicklaus
"Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance."
Dax Ward
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Christian Nestell
"Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up."
There s Something About Mary
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
Salman Rushdie
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."
Cheers
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
William Hazlitt