Cassius Quotes

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.

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?

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

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.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

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

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?

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.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

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.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

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.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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.]