black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Martial

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
MARTIAL

Elegant Hire Passion
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIAL

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
He 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?
MARTIAL

Book Himself Writing
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
MARTIAL

Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
MARTIAL

Leather Remember Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
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.
MARTIAL

Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
You 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!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIAL

Home One Liner
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIAL

Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing

You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Martial Quotes