Plautus Quotes

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

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

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

How great in number are the little minded men

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

Flame is very near to smoke.

You will not be a chip the richer.

The gods play games with men as balls.

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

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

It is easy to rule over the good.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

All men love themselves.

Let deeds match words.

No man is wise enough by himself.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

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.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

Man is no man, but a wolf

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

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