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• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Cicero...
• Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Cicero...
• Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Pyrrhu...
• Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible.
  To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house....
• Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage.
  Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as 'I should not have thought of it....
• He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees?
  ... Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• When some were saying that if Caesar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him
  Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot....