Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIALNo man is quick enough to enjoy life.
More Martial Quotes
-
-
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL -
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL -
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL -
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL -
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIAL -
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL -
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIAL -
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL -
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIAL -
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL -
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIAL -
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL -
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.
MARTIAL -
Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL -
Be merry if you are wise.
MARTIAL