Quote

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

Plautus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plautus
Actor
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Titus Maccius Plautus
Find
Ships
Ever
Neither
Begin
Equip
Enough
Produce
Procure
Things
Wants
Equipped
Men
Trouble
Ship
Woman
Employment
Two
Abundance

More quotes by Plautus

Image
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
Plautus
Image
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
Plautus
Image
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
Plautus
Image
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Plautus
Image
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
Plautus
Image
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Plautus
Image
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
Plautus
Image
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
Plautus
Image
Man proposes, God disposes.
Plautus
Image
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
Plautus
Image
In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
Plautus
Image
I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]
Plautus
Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
Plautus
Image
In everything the middle course is the best everything in excess brings trouble.
Plautus
Image
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
Plautus
Image
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
Plautus
Image
You drown him by your talk.
Plautus
Image
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
Plautus
Image
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Plautus
Image
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Plautus