Cato the Elder Quotes

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

Cato the Elder

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• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Economic

• You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Know
  • Stand

• I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Gossip

• My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Found
  • Iraq
  • Mass

• I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.

  

  Gabe Jennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Running

• For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Liberty
  • Century
  • Granted

• Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Mountains
  • Raises

• Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Everyday

• Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Gods
  • Kill
  • Worship

• A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Art
  • Voice
  • Misery

• The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • World
  • Church
  • Drink

• But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Moments

• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Know
  • Punishment

• Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Death
  • Society
  • Punishment

• I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Punishment