Porcius Cato Quotes & Sayings

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov

The statute of limitations . . . She's put it behind her. Or I hope she has. She'd have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat. — J.D. Robb

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. — Margaret Atwood

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me. — Travis Morrison

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant. — David Letterman

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. — Geoffrey West

The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Love brought out the worst in people, gave them free license to abuse each other. — Sophie Jordan

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. — Marcus Porcius Cato

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Everyone would die but me," she said. "They'd all take pills and die. They'll do it right away so they don't use up any food. Commander Lewis picked me to be the survivor. She told me about it yesterday. I don't think NASA knows about it. — Andy Weir

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all. — Davy Crockett

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it. — George Bernard Shaw

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men. — Marcus Porcius Cato

In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun. — Charles R. Swindoll

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. — Marcus Porcius Cato

He who hesitates is lost. — Marcus Porcius Cato

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them. — Anthony Minghella

I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have. — Christopher Buckley