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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. -- Alexander Pope
Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. -- Suzanne Collins
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. -- Horace
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. -- Plutarch
The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. -- Suzanne Collins
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. -- Plutarch
The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil designs. -- Pliny the Elder
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. -- Jim Cooper
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. -- Joseph Addison
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."] -- Plutarch
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. -- Seneca the Younger
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. -- Plutarch
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business. -- James Thurber
My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death. -- Nat Hentoff
I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone. -- Suzanne Collins
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. -- W. Somerset Maugham
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. -- Cato the Elder
For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street. -- Frank Knight
He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him. -- Plutarch

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