Martial Quotes - Page 4

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

Hidden evils are most dreaded.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

Life is not living, but living in health.

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

What quick wit is found in sudden straits!

For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.