Plautus Quotes - Page 5

It is much easier to begin than to end.

Your wealth is where your friends are

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Conquered, we conquer.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

All men love themselves.

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

The stronger always succeeds.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]