Plautus famous quotes

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
-- Plautus

#Friendship #Real Friends #Heaven

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
-- Plautus

#Wish

Where there are friends there is wealth.
-- Plautus

#Friendship #Relationship #Real Friends

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
-- Plautus

#Life #Success #Money

No man is wise enough by himself.
-- Plautus

#Teamwork #Wise #Men

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
-- Plautus

#Birthday #Anniversary #Sweet

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
-- Plautus

Conquered, we conquer.
-- Plautus

#Conquer

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
-- Plautus

#Love #Judging #Sound

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
-- Plautus

#Years #Ability

Your wealth is where your friends are
-- Plautus

#Wealth

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
-- Plautus

#Men #Mind #Guilt

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
-- Plautus

#Failure #Loss #Gains

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
-- Plautus

#Wings #Flying #Aviation

Practice yourself what you preach.
-- Plautus

#Practice

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
-- Plautus

#Men #Return #Favors

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
-- Plautus

#Character #Jewels #Jewelry

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
-- Plautus

#Mind #Trouble #Source

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

#Hope #Good Things #Disappointed

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
-- Plautus

#Overcoming #Reason #Rejoice

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
-- Plautus

#Drinking #Wine #Feet

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
-- Plautus

#Wise #Being Wise #God Provides

Laws are subordinate to custom.
-- Plautus

#Law

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
-- Plautus

#Men #Delay #World

Courage is its own reward.
-- Plautus

#Courage #Rewards

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
-- Plautus

#Country #Courage #Children

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
-- Plautus

#Mean #Justice #Useless

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
-- Plautus

#Friendship #Travel #House

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
-- Plautus

#Brother #Badness

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
-- Plautus

#Wisdom #Reality #Age

No blessing lasts forever.
-- Plautus

#Blessing #Forever #Lasts

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
-- Plautus

#Decision #Buyers #Consumers

Let deeds match words.
-- Plautus

#Deeds

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
-- Plautus

#Wisdom #Patience #Be Patient

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
-- Plautus

#Hope #Wish

Man is no man, but a wolf
-- Plautus

#Animal #Men

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
-- Plautus

#Hands #Suffering #Fists

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
-- Plautus

#Water #Digging #Thirst

If you want to do something, do it!
-- Plautus

#Motivational #Want

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
-- Plautus

#Pain #Pleasure

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
-- Plautus

#Law #Littles #Uncertain

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
-- Plautus

#Learning #Life Is #Thorough

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
-- Plautus

#Men #Two #Sailing

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
-- Plautus

#Wisdom #Expenses

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
-- Plautus

#Love Is #Spices #Dishes

You must spend money to make money.
-- Plautus

#Money #Making Money

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
-- Plautus

#Men #Kind #Wealth

Wine is a cunning wrestler.
-- Plautus

#Wine #Wrestler #Cunning

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
-- Plautus

#Return #Hard Things

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
-- Plautus

#Want

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
-- Plautus

#Certain #Lost #Grasping

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
-- Plautus

#Cheerful #Disposition #Advantage

It is best to know the worst at once.
-- Plautus

#Worst

It is difficult to fly without wings.
-- Plautus

#Wings #Difficult

It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
-- Plautus

#Drink #Difficult

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

#Serious #Said #Treats

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
-- Plautus

#Kindness #Men #Purpose

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
-- Plautus

#Hounds #Folly

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
-- Plautus

#Undone #Ruined

A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
-- Plautus

#Holes #Mice #Rely

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
-- Plautus

#Pumps #Waste

In everything the middle road is best.
-- Plautus

#Moderation #Middle

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
-- Plautus

#Disappointment #Benefits #Bitter

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
-- Plautus

#Wisdom #Thinking

Always bring money along with your complaints.
-- Plautus

#Complaints

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
-- Plautus

#Character #May #Disgrace

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
-- Plautus

#Men #Relative

All men love themselves.
-- Plautus

#Men

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
-- Plautus

#Shame #Lost

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
-- Plautus

#Abuse #Looks #Calumny

The evil that we know is best.
-- Plautus

#Evil

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
-- Plautus

#Envy #Spiteful #Wells

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
-- Plautus

#Friendship #Men #Friendly

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
-- Plautus

#Easy #Excellent #Easier

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
-- Plautus

#Men #Guilt #Shame

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
-- Plautus

#Sadness #Misery #Miserable

He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.
-- Plautus

#Life #Hungry #Faith In Love

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
-- Plautus

#Life #Taste #Bitterness

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
-- Plautus

#Life #Gold #Weight

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
-- Plautus

#Life #Falling In Love #Fate

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
-- Plautus

#Courage #Eloquence

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
-- Plautus

#Eye #Gossip #Witness