For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

To snatch the worm from the trap.
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One Liner Trap Worm
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A word to the wise is sufficient
PLAUTUS

Sufficient Wisdom Word
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS

Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUS

Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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