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Publius Syrus

52 quotes

• “A god could hardly love and be wise.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “A good reputation is more valuable than money.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “What is left when honour is lost?”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is better to have a little than nothing.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

  Also quoted by: English proverb (english)

• “A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Necessity knows no law except to conquer.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is not every question that deserves an answer.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

  Also quoted by: English proverb (english)

• “He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “A guilty conscience never feels secure.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “He gets through too late who goes too fast.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “In every enterprise consider where you would come out.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “The next day is never so good as the day before.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It matters not how long you live, but how well.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is vain to look for a defence against lightning.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “No good man ever grew rich all at once.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “It is better to learn late than never.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

• “Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.”

  Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source

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