He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
Plautus
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
29JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!
Plautus
28JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
Practice yourself what you preach.
Plautus
27JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you.
Plautus
26JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
No blessing lasts forever.
Plautus
25JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus
24JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.
Plautus
23JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
A word to the wise is enough.
Plautus
22JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.
Plautus
21JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Plautus