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Plautus quotes - page 4
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Plautus
Is amicus est, qui in re dubia re adjuvat.
Plautus
Qui monet, quasi adjuvat.
Plautus
The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.
Plautus
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
Plautus
According as men thrive, their friends are true; if their affairs go to wreck, their friends sink with them. Fortune finds friends.
Plautus
For true it is, good oft befalls us when we least expect it. And true it is, that when we trust in hope, we're often disappointed.
Plautus
Drink! live like the Greeks! eat! gorge!. (translator unknown)
Plautus
For what is idly got is idly spent.
Plautus
But ne'ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block'd up, it has secure some other outlet.
Plautus
I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!
Plautus
Whene'er a man is quartered at a friend's, if he but stay three days, his company they will grow weary of. (translator Thornton)
Plautus
I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.
Plautus
Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render'd many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr'd to gain. (translator Thornton)
Plautus
Our best support and succor in distress is fortitude of mind.
Plautus
Man proposes, God disposes. (translated by Thornton)
Plautus
You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.
Plautus
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
I am always afraid of your 'something shall be done'.
Plautus
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
Plautus
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