To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUSRelated Topics
Anand Thakur
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS
Good things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUS
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
PLAUTUS
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
PLAUTUS
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
PLAUTUS
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUS
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
PLAUTUS
How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUS
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
PLAUTUS
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
PLAUTUS
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUS