Humorous Quotes attributed to Marcus T Cicero
106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

A letter does not blush.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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