There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUS

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

Lost Man Regard Shame
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
PLAUTUS

Football God Mortal
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
PLAUTUS

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

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
PLAUTUS

Day Willing Yourself
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm

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