All Martial Quotes
- Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard. Book
- Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day. Content
- The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It… Bee
- Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. Feather
- Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings. Bears
- That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. Bird
- He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only… Borrow
- I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have… Ask
- Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. Bad
- Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. Any
- I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears… Addicted
- A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be. Cook
- I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble… Eating
- You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. Bathe
- See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? Amazement
- However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. Dish
- If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. Among
- When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. Applaud
- You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. Break
- A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. Fisherman