black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Martial

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIAL

Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIAL

Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIAL

Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
MARTIAL

Content Language Need
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
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
MARTIAL

Art Myself Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

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

Elegant Hire Passion
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIAL

Alive Life One Liner
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
MARTIAL

Expression Inscription Place Shame
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIAL

Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Martial Quotes