Martial Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
-- Martial

#Health #Alive #Life Is

“There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”
-- Martial

#Love #Thee

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
-- Martial

#Caring #World #Flaws

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
-- Martial

#Life #Today #Too Late

“Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.”
-- Martial

#Strong #Exercise #Men

“It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.”
-- Martial

#Imagination #Feelings #Intuition

“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”
-- Martial

#Life #Past #Two

“Life is not living, but living in health.”
-- Martial

#Fitness #Life Is

“There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.”
-- Martial

#Glory #Donkey

“Wine and women bring misery.”
-- Martial

#Wine #Misery #Women And Wine

“Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.”
-- Martial

#Creative #Pages #Thieves

“There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.”
-- Martial

#Dignity #Glory #Donkey

“My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.”
-- Martial

#Life #Naughty #Life Is

“Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.”
-- Martial

#Accomplishment #Age #Praying

“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
-- Martial

#Life #Men

“You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.”
-- Martial

#Life #Dying #Puff

“The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.”
-- Martial

#Flaws

“You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!”
-- Martial

#Giving #Promise #Wish

“Those they praise, but they read the others.”
-- Martial

#Praise

“See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?”
-- Martial

#Eating #Fats #Grows

“You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.”
-- Martial

#Giving #Wish #Three

“Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!”
-- Martial

#Men #Good Man #Black

“He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.”
-- Martial

#Life #Thinking #Long

“A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.”
-- Martial

#Life #Past #Men

“Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.”
-- Martial

#Wish #Position

“You may envy every one, but no one envies you.”
-- Martial

#Envy #May

“Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]”
-- Martial

#Cobblers #Remember #Memento

“A vagrant is everywhere at home.”
-- Martial

#Home #Vagrants #Walking

“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
-- Martial

#Past #Able #Life Is

“To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]”
-- Martial

#Poverty