black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Wine and women bring misery.

Martial

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIAL

Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIAL

Face Fair Happiness Smile
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
MARTIAL

Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARTIAL

Animal Bird Wings
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
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

Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Content Preference Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
MARTIAL

Fools Labour Wasted
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIAL

Enough Life Man Quick
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIAL

Greatness Present Return
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIAL

Fools Future Past Wisdom
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIAL

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
MARTIAL

Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIAL

Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIAL

Day Death Fear Yourself

Wine and women bring misery.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Wine and women bring misery.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Martial Quotes