All Martial Quotes
- 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
- Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. Expects
- She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. Grief
- Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. Fly
- Be merry if you are wise. Funny
- It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure Able
- The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. Doth
- The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Dirge
- Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. Late
- Work divided is in that manner shortened. Divided
- Life is not living, but living in health. Fitness
- For life is only life when blessed with health. Blessed
- Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. Expected
- Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. Alive
- It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day. Act
- He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in… Consists