Skip to content

Admire Quote by Martial

“You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.” quote by Martial — Download Open image

“You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Admire Admire Vacerra Death Ifs Old Praise Pardon Pardon me Pay Poet Poetry Poets Old Praise Praise Dead Thinking Vacerra Poets

More by Martial

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

Image

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

Image

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Image

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Image

“Laugh if you are wise, girl, laugh.”

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…

Image

“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.”

Image

A novice always behaves with propriety.

Image

For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.

Image

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Image

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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…

Image

Explore all 155 Martial quotes

More Admire quotes

Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

Image

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

Image

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself...…

Cristina Saralegui

Image

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.

Image

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

Caroline Polachek

Image

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half…

Image

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

Image

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Image

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire…

Image

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

Charles Dickens

Image

I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's…

Image

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would…

Image

Browse all 2,198 Admire quotes