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 was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• 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

• My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Teacher

• I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Skin

• When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Reality
  • Rock

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

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Promise