Cato the Elder Quotes

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

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• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Things
  • Names
  • Essence

• 'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dark

• We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Exercise
  • Option

• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Society
  • Fabric
  • Woven

• Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Respect
  • Honor
  • Inscription

• All is flux; nothing stays still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Still
  • Flux

• Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Politics
  • Legacy
  • Phase

• Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Lover
  • Promises

• Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Focus

• I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Feminine
  • Struggled
  • Couch

• I'm going to do my job and I don't care if I'm not friends with anybody. I don't need to be best friends with all my co-workers to do a good job.

  

  Paul Schneider
  • Friends
  • Good Job
  • Coworkers

• The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction; than I have ever before derived from any political event. Because there is a rational ground for believing that not only the happiness of my own countrymen, but that of mankind in general, will be promoted by it.

  

  George Washington
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Mankind

• Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • Force
  • Social
  • Mankind

• All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Mankind