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.
Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.
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.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.
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.
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.]
Men at some time are masters of their fates...
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?
I was born free as Caesar; so were you
No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.