Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

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• I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Never
  • Strange
  • Appreciated

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Hardworking
  • Diligent

• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Child
  • Doing
  • Silly

• There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Hate

• Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Up
  • Powerful
  • Brain

• Nowadays, there is a new trend that has started. Up to assembly election results, they were targeting Modi. Now it is very difficult for them to target Modi. So now you must have read so many articles, so many discussions on the TV: 'there's something wrong with the people of Gujarat'. This has the sic started!

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Up

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

  

  Margaret Fuller

• Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

  

  Livy
  • Men

• For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Science
  • Light
  • Wisdom

• When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.

  

  Edward Everett

• He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God

• No doubt his grandmother and his great-grandfather had hoped to empower a senator, enrich a great art collection or encourage a dazzling marriage, but in the end they had mainly subsidized idleness, drunkenness, treachery and divorce.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Great
  • Art
  • Marriage

• I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Time
  • World
  • Eyes

• I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Ugly

• Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Emotional

• The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Firsts
  • Doctrine
  • Establishment Clause

• Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Promise