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  • Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look -- Julius Caesar
  • Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing. -- Floyd Patterson
  • Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm. -- William Shakespeare
  • No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. -- William Shakespeare
  • If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder. -- Sonny Liston
  • Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me? -- William Shakespeare
  • Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. -- William Shakespeare
  • He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind -- William Shakespeare
  • Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. -- William Shakespeare
  • Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.] -- Tacitus
  • When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. -- Julius Caesar
  • Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. -- David Bowie
  • The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre. -- Tacitus
  • As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. -- Rand Paul
  • Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day. -- Muhammad Ali
  • When did you grow a back bone?" Cassius stopped pacing and actually smiled a little.Kendall wasn't appeased "I borrowed Jory's -- Gabrielle Evans
  • But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, "?The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. -- John Green
  • Cassius shook his head and sighed "I want to have just one conversation with you that doesn't required GPS to navigate. I'm not asking for the world-just one normal conversation. We used to talk. Remember that? -- Gabrielle Evans
  • To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' -- Muhammad Ali
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