The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS
PLAUTUS
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PlautusPlautus Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
PlautusPlautus One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PlautusPlautus No blessing lasts forever.
PlautusPlautus It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
PlautusPlautus You will not be a chip the richer.
PlautusPlautus For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PlautusPlautus He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PlautusPlautus It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PlautusPlautus How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PlautusPlautus There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PlautusPlautus Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PlautusPlautus If you want to do something, do it!
PlautusPlautus I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PlautusPlautus Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PlautusPlautus It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
Alan KingAlan King The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I’ve come to realize that I perform best when I’m letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
Al GeibergerAl Geiberger When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on “What’s the next piece I’m going to write, or draw, that’ll pay this month’s rent?” And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.
Al JaffeeAl Jaffee I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
Al FrankenAl Franken Whether it’s teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There’s something really cool about that.
Aimee TeegardenAimee Teegarden I’ve always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I’m a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.
Aeriel MirandaAeriel Miranda And prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.
Adolph RuppAdolph Rupp