If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. — Martial Copy Share Image
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. — Martial Copy Share Image
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? — Martial Copy Share Image
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously… — Martial Copy Share Image
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. — Martial Copy Share Image
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure — Martial Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.” — Martial Copy Share Image
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. — Martial Copy Share Image
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door… — Martial Copy Share Image
