Cato The Elder Famous Quotes & Sayings

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope

The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society. — Vint Cerf

If a job doesn't excite you on some level - just because of the stuff of it - don't settle. — Jack Welch

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself — Charles Spurgeon

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear. — Ann Leckie

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that you cannot please all of the people around you all of the time. Some of t hem will attribute to you motives you never dreamed of. Some of them will misinterpret your words and actions, making them completely alien to you. So you had better learn fairly early that you must not expect to have everyone understand what you say and what you do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I mean, it's never too late to decide to do something else. Becoming an adult doesn't mean that you suddenly have all the answers. — Emma Straub

As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing. — Kristin Chenoweth

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime. — Jalal Talabani

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader. — Paul Krugman

It is as difficult to suppose a person intending to write a modern English, as to suppose him writing an ancient English, novel; that is a label which begs the question. One writes the novel, one paints the picture, of one's language and of one's time, and calling it modern English will not, alas! make the difficult task any easier. — Henry James

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?' — Terry Pratchett

This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. — Yasmine Bleeth

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a "what if" life. — Steve Maraboli