Julius Caesar - Quotes

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
  He thinks too much, such men are dangerous."

"Speak, hands for me!"

"Beware the ides of March."

"Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
  Not hew him as a carcass for the hounds."

"O pardon me, though bleeding piece of earth,
  That I am meek and gentle with these butchers."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

"Our reasons are so full of good regard
  that were you the son of Caesar you should be satisfied."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
  But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
  The valiant never taste of death but once."

"None that I know will be;
  much that I fear may chance."

"Caesar, now be still;
  I killed not thee with half so good a will."

"When Caesar says 'Do this,' it is performed."

"So call the field to rest, and let's away,
  To part the glories of this happy day."

"Et tu, Brute? - Then fall Caesar."

"He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus..."

"This was the noblest Roman of them all..."

"To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi."

"It is expected I should know no secrets
  That appertain to you?  Am I your self"

"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;
  as he was fortunate, I rejoiced at it,
  as he was valiant, I honor him;
  but, as he was ambitious, I slew him."

"I am constant as the Northern star."

What is the "Catcher in the Rye"?

The “Catcher in the Rye”

As the source of the book’s title, this symbol merits close inspection. It first appears in Chapter 16, when a kid Holden admires for walking in the street rather than on the sidewalk is singing the Robert Burns song “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye.” In Chapter 22, when Phoebe asks Holden what he wants to do with his life, he replies with his image, from the song, of a “catcher in the rye.” Holden imagines a field of rye perched high on a cliff, full of children romping and playing. He says he would like to protect the children from falling off the edge of the cliff by “catching”them if they were on the verge of tumbling over. As Phoebe points out, Holden has misheard the lyric. He thinks the line is “If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye,” but the actual lyric is “If a body meet a body, coming through the rye.”
The song “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” asks if it is wrong for two people to have a romantic encounter out in the fields, away from the public eye, even if they don’t plan to have a commitment to one another. It is highly ironic that the word “meet” refers to an encounter that leads to recreational sex, because the word that Holden substitutes—“catch”—takes on the exact opposite meaning in his mind. Holden wants to catch children before they fall out of innocence into knowledge of the adult world, including knowledge of sex.