Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
Plautus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plautus
Actor
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Titus Maccius Plautus
Found
Distinguish
Place
Portions
Firsts
Gods
First
Sun
Wretchedly
Men
Cutting
Confound
Days
Dial
Small
Hack
Hours
Hacks
More quotes by Plautus
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
Plautus
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
Plautus
In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
Plautus
If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
Plautus
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
Plautus
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]
Plautus
It is good to love in a moderate degree to distraction, it is not good but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
Plautus
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus
That which you know, know not and that which you see, see not.
Plautus
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
Plautus
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
Plautus
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Plautus
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
Plautus
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Plautus
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
Plautus
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
Plautus
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
Plautus
