There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

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 to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.