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• My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. -- Iphicrate
• My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. -- Iphicrates (c. 419-318 BC)
• 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....
• When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Isis and Osiri...
• When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, "Yes," said he, "I would have you stand from between me and the sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine
  and he is very happy who hath this only....
• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses.
  Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Antigonus I...
• And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax...
• Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will
  but hear." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...