Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
Plautus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plautus
Actor
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Titus Maccius Plautus
Bitter
Benefits
Sown
Injuries
Reap
Injury
Disappointment
More quotes by Plautus
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
Plautus
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.
Plautus
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Plautus
Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
Plautus
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Plautus
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
Plautus
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
Plautus
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
Plautus
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
Plautus
Ones oldest friend is the best.
Plautus
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Plautus
If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
Plautus
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
Plautus
The stronger always succeeds.
Plautus
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]
Plautus
That which you know, know not and that which you see, see not.
Plautus
In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
Plautus