You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIALYou ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALHe who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
MARTIALA good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
MARTIALThe face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIALTo-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIALIt is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIALYou give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
MARTIALYou may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIALWhoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIALYou puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIALThere is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIALI 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.
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIALI’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIALEvery bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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