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

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

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.

Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

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?