Juvenal Quotes - Page 12

Quotes about:

• Savage bears agree with one another.

  Juvenal

  Savages, Bears, Agree

  4 Copy quote

• What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

  Juvenal

  Imperfection, Failing, Theft

  7 Copy quote

• The abuse of cabmen in a block.

  Juvenal

  Block, Abuse

  4 Copy quote

• One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Infamous, Crime

  7 Copy quote

• To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
  [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

  Juvenal

  Ambition, Tables, Height

  8 Copy quote

• The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

  Juvenal

  Sorrow, Finishing, Strokes

  4 Copy quote

• Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

  Juvenal

  Gold, Increase, Avarice

  7 Copy quote

• Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Sake, Sin

  'Satires' no. 8, l. 83

  4 Copy quote

• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Umpires, Evil, Vices

  4 Copy quote

• The act of God injures no one.

  Juvenal

  Action

  7 Copy quote

• The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

  Juvenal

  Money, Smell, May

  4 Copy quote

• Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
  [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

  Juvenal

  Heaven, Greek, Hunger

  7 Copy quote

• The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

  Juvenal

  Eclipse, Pupils, Tutor

  Juvenal (1839). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius: From the Texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English Notes, Partly Comp., and Partly Original”, p.338

  4 Copy quote

• An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Insane, Possession

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VII, line 51, 1890.

  7 Copy quote

• Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Men, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

  Juvenal

  Revenge, Thinking, Fool

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 180, 1890.

  13 Copy quote

• No man ever became very wicked all at once.

  Juvenal

  Men, Evil, Wicked

  4 Copy quote

• O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

  Juvenal

  Laughter, Mind, Poverty

  Juvenal (1806). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes”, p.84

  7 Copy quote

• Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
  At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

  Juvenal

  Death, Seven, Inches

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.140

  4 Copy quote

• Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

  Juvenal

  Animal, Agreement, Savages

  8 Copy quote

Page 12 of 12

First

← Prev

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin