Tag: Plautus

No blessing lasts forever.

Plautus

No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Plautus

One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.

Plautus

A word to the wise is enough.

Plautus

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

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

Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.

Plautus