The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

A true friend is tested in adversity.

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.