Martial famous quotes

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
-- Martial

#Health #Alive #Life Is

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
-- Martial

#Love #Thee

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
-- Martial

#Caring #World #Flaws

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
-- Martial

#Life #Today #Too Late

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
-- Martial

#Strong #Exercise #Men

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
-- Martial

#Imagination #Feelings #Intuition

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
-- Martial

#Life #Past #Two

Life is not living, but living in health.
-- Martial

#Fitness #Life Is

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
-- Martial

#Glory #Donkey

Wine and women bring misery.
-- Martial

#Wine #Misery #Women And Wine

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
-- Martial

#Creative #Pages #Thieves

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
-- Martial

#Dignity #Glory #Donkey

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
-- Martial

#Life #Naughty #Life Is

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
-- Martial

#Accomplishment #Age #Praying

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
-- Martial

#Life #Men

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
-- Martial

#Life #Dying #Puff

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
-- Martial

#Flaws

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
-- Martial

#Giving #Promise #Wish

Those they praise, but they read the others.
-- Martial

#Praise

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
-- Martial

#Eating #Fats #Grows

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
-- Martial

#Giving #Wish #Three

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
-- Martial

#Men #Good Man #Black

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
-- Martial

#Life #Thinking #Long

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
-- Martial

#Life #Past #Men

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
-- Martial

#Wish #Position

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
-- Martial

#Envy #May

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
-- Martial

#Cobblers #Remember #Memento

A vagrant is everywhere at home.
-- Martial

#Home #Vagrants #Walking

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
-- Martial

#Past #Able #Life Is

To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
-- Martial

#Poverty

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
-- Martial

#Friendship #Writing #Complaining

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
-- Martial

#Friendship #Book #Made

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
-- Martial

#Needs #Tongue

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
-- Martial

#Fame #After Death

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
-- Martial

#Giving #Too Much #Wealth

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
-- Martial

#Birthday #Believe #Giving

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
-- Martial

#Life #Without You #Morose