black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN

Art Hide Perfection
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIAN

Happiness Pleasure Satire
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN

Alone Light Man Rude
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIAN

Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
QUINTILIAN

Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIAN

Awake Dreams Hope
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN

Deep Please
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN

Change Greatness Nature
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
QUINTILIAN

Gift Natural Rule Technical
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN

Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
QUINTILIAN

Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN

Change Dangerous Fortune
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIAN

Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QUINTILIAN

Arrival Genius Maturity

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quintilian Quotes