Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIALRemember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
More Martial Quotes
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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?
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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