Ifs Quotes by Martial

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

— Martial

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

— Martial

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

— Martial

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

— Martial

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

— Martial

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which…

— Martial

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

— Martial

Laugh, if thou art wise.

— Martial

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety…

— Martial

I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half…

— Martial

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner.…

— Martial

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if…

— Martial

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

— Martial

Be merry if you are wise.

— Martial

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

— Martial