Quote

Laugh, if thou art wise.

Martial

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Martial
Wise
Art
Thou
Laugh
Laughing

More quotes by Martial

Image
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Martial
Image
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Martial
Image
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Martial
Image
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
Martial
Image
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
Martial
Image
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
Martial
Image
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
Martial
Image
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Martial
Image
Be merry if you are wise.
Martial
Image
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Martial
Image
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
Martial
Image
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why I can only say this, I do not love thee.
Martial
Image
Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
Martial
Image
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
Martial
Image
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late live today. Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say Today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.
Martial
Image
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
Martial
Image
Be not too thick with anybody your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
Martial
Image
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
Image
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
Martial
Image
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
Martial