Quote

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

Plautus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plautus
Actor
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Titus Maccius Plautus
Sheer
Folly
Take
Hounds
Unwilling
Chase

More quotes by Plautus

Image
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Plautus
Image
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
Plautus
Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
Plautus
Image
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
Plautus
Image
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
Plautus
Image
Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]
Plautus
Image
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus
Image
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Plautus
Image
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
Plautus
Image
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
Plautus
Image
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
Plautus
Image
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
Image
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus
Image
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]
Plautus
Image
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
Plautus
Image
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Plautus
Image
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Plautus
Image
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Plautus
Image
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
Image
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
Plautus