I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIALThat which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
More Martial Quotes
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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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.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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