Martial Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

  Martial

  Blessing, Ungrateful, Doe

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.297

  8 Copy quote

• Gifts are like hooks.

  Martial

  Hook

  Martial, Garry Wills (2008). “Martial's Epigrams: A Selection”, p.80, CUP Archive

  7 Copy quote

• To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

  Martial

  Ashes, Too Late, Reputation

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

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

  Martial

  Poverty

  8 Copy quote

• She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

  Martial

  Grief, Grieving, Unseen

  11 Copy quote

• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

  Martial

  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

  6 Copy quote

• Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

  Martial

  Fear, Long

  "Martial epigrams". Book by Martial, X, 47, 1897.

  5 Copy quote

• Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

  Martial

  Husband, Taken, Wife

  4 Copy quote

• Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

  Martial

  Wings, Joy, Fly Away

  "Epigrams". Book I. 16. 8, c. 80-104 AD.

  8 Copy quote

• Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

  Martial

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 125-27, Epigrams, I. 17. 1, 1922.

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

  Martial

  Laughing, Ill

  8 Copy quote

• Whoever is not too wise is wise.
  [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

  Martial

  Wise, Wisdom, Plus

  9 Copy quote

• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

  53 Copy quote

• From no place can you exclude the fates.
  [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]

  Martial

  Fate

  8 Copy quote

• I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

  Martial

  Granted, Borrowing, Refuse

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.580

  8 Copy quote

• I do not hate the man, but his vices.

  Martial

  Hate, Men, Hatred

  5 Copy quote

• Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.

  Martial

  Fascinating

  4 Copy quote

• You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

  Martial

  Death, Wish, Lasts

  8 Copy quote

• Those they praise, but they read the others.

  Martial

  Praise

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

• While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

  Martial

  Tree, Amber, Shade

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.268

  7 Copy quote

• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
  [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

  Martial

  Adversity, Bravery, Easy

  8 Copy quote

• Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

  Martial

  Lying, Mean, Two

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.55

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

• What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

  Martial

  Men, Please, Wretched

  7 Copy quote

• Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.

  Martial

  Live For Today, Too Late, Tomorrow

  5 Copy quote

Page 3 of 7

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin