Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIALFortune gives many too much, but none enough.
More Martial Quotes
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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A 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.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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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.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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