Alexander quotes

Truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. See Diogenes of Sinope 275:21.

-Alexander the Great
Quoted in Plutarch  Alexander,14.3.

Quhen Alysaunder oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in lauche and le, Away wes sons of alle and brede, Off wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle; Oure gold wes changyd in to lede. Cryst, borne in to virgynyte, Succour Scotland, and remede, That stad is in perplexyte.

-Anonymous
c.1286  Lines said to have been written after the death of Alexander II of Scotland, the earliest extant piece of Scottish verse. Quoted in the Original Chronicle of  Andrew Wyntoun (c.1420), bk.7.

  Come on and hear, Come on and hear Alexander's Ragtime Band

- Irving originally Israel Baline Berlin
  'Alexander's Ragtime Band', opening lines, featured in the 1938 film of the same title.