I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
PLAUTUS

Fast Feast Future
It is best to know the worst at once.
PLAUTUS

Best Oneself Worst
You will not be a chip the richer.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself

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