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Martial
35 quotes
“Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cineri gloria sera venit.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Doctor Fell", Tom B…
“Ride, si sapis.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turpe est difficiles habere nugas, Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux: Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum: Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane; Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Selius affirms, in heav'n no gods there are: And while he thrives, and they their thunder spare, His daring tenet to the world seems fair. Anon. 1695.
“The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IV, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mort…
“Laudant illa sed ista legunt.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Divisum sic breve fiet opus.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobis pereunt et imputantur.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Barbarian hordes en masse you fuck, Odd types into your bed you tuck, You take on blacks and Asian forces, And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses. Yet you, voracious Roman chick, Have never known a Roman dick.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: X, 23. Alternatively translated as "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once…
“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or sh…
“Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source