It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
Pliny the Elder
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
08JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder
07JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
Fortune favours the brave.
Pliny the Elder
06JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
There are times when loss should be preferr’d to gain
Plautus
05JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
Plautus
04JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows bread with the other.
Plautus
03JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
For what is idly got is idly spent.
Plautus
02JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
You should not speak ill of an absent friend.
Plautus
01JUL2025 – Quote of the Day
That expression, “He means well,” is useless unless he does well.
Plautus
30JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
Plautus