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• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,.
  .. he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?...
• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees.
  They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Phocio...
• Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Demosthene...
• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Phocio...
• Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece
  For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother....
• Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Alcibiade...
• 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...
• 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...
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....