Plautus Quotes - Page 10

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

He whom the Gods love dies young.

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum; Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

He can do most who has most power.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.