Martial on language
Martial149 quotes“Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.”
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
MartialMartial You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MartialMartial You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MartialMartial Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
MartialMartial Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
MartialMartial Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MartialMartial It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MartialMartial Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MartialMartial It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
MartialMartial To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MartialMartial Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MartialMartial You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MartialMartial 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?
MartialMartial Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MartialMartial There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MartialMartial The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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The language of truth is simple.
EuripidesEuripides Music is a universal language.
John LewisJohn Lewis I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae WestMae West The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran It is very important that adults talk to children about what is happening in a way that they can understand, using simple and age-appropriate language.
Lionel MessiLionel Messi By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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