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Marcus Valerius Martial

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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are no...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exerci...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and mode...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad din...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may b...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems en...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that yo...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, whi...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses noth...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whol...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also a...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew; Who e'er a greater madne...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, volui...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the ti...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinn...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, wh...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you ar...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If yo...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and say...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred th...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier e...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is me...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather; ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expec...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see wh...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; i...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities,...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife!
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and ot...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scar...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "H...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is? 'Ti...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL "You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Ch...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,-- who can deny it? But when you prai...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begin...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your at...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL To-morrow you will live, you always cry; In what fair country does this morrow lie, That 'tis ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among q...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge i...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-f...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, a...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You,...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when in...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; b...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat.,...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Work divided is in that manner shortened. [Lat., Divisum sic breve fiet opus.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exerci...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Gifts are like hooks.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL Laugh, if thou art wise.
MARTIAL Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARTIAL Gifts are hooks.
MARTIAL There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.
MARTIAL To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
MARTIAL If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
MARTIAL Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life's too late, live today
MARTIAL Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL [i]t is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused k...
MARTIAL You are looking at numbers and signals, but in the end what is most important here is the experience...
MARTIAL While you cannot resolve what your are, at last you will be nothing.
MARTIAL The country in town.
MARTIAL I am a professional footballer, and it's a game where the coach decides where you can be most be...
ANTHONY MARTIAL I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really g...
ANTHONY MARTIAL The Premier League is more physically demanding than Ligue 1. I love English football; it's the ...
ANTHONY MARTIAL I love Manchester. I like being here, and certainly I see myself being here for a good while yet.
ANTHONY MARTIAL My family were really happy for me that I'm going to such a big club as Manchester United. They ...
ANTHONY MARTIAL It's true that the atmosphere here is quite different from the one in France. People live and br...
ANTHONY MARTIAL I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get s...
ANTHONY MARTIAL Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever l...
CAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS But are they heroes or mere dreamers?
GAIUS VALERIUS FLACCUS Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both a...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You hav...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dish...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Spices, of course, are essential.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it&#...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food th...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between c...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane d...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...
MARCUS AURELIUS The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
MARCUS AURELIUS Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and fri...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
MARCUS LUTTRELL I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing tha...
MARCUS LUTTRELL Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless wa...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I th...
MARCUS LEMONIS While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual cand...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON The company's contributions are practically never made on the basis of friendship, party affiliation...
ALAN MARCUS It's a part of doing business. We're a professional-services firm and we have given to many politici...
ALAN MARCUS It's not unusual. It's common. And until somebody makes it illegal, they're going to keep doing it.
ALAN MARCUS We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.
ALAN MARCUS I think a lot of retailers were playing it a bit more conservative. If you look at it three years ag...
ALAN MARCUS John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS It's incredible. Right now we're about 40 percent up from this time last year. It's been extraordina...
ALAN MARCUS The whole world is run on bluff.
MARCUS GARVEY Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come beca...
MARCUS COLE I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was al...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
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