Plautus Quotes
- Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
- If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
- Ones oldest friend is the best.
- To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
- The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
- Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
- Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
- It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
- In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
- Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
- Flame is very near to smoke.
- All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
- I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
- No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's…
- I suspect that hunger was my mother.
- You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
- If you speak insults you will hear them also.
- If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
- What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin…
- How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.