Cato Quotes

Cato Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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)

Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.