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Tag Name "Cato" (14)

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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Plutarch
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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Plutarch
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Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
Jim Cooper
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My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.
Nat Hentoff
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You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'm not their slave, the man mutters. I am, I say. That's why I killed Cato ... and he killed Thresh ... and he killed Clove ... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games.
Suzanne Collins
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato the Elder
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Joseph Addison
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He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
Plutarch
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
Suzanne Collins
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I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.
Suzanne Collins
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope