Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant, Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Slander Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Pseudolus (I, 5, 12)

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If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]

Insult Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Pseudolus (act IV, 7, 77)

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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]

Eating Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Aulularia

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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]

Hospitality Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Miles Gloriosus (III, 3, 12)

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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.]

Will Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Trinummus (II, 9)

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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Merit Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Amphitruo--Prologue (LXXVIII)

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Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.]

Victory Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Pseudolus (act V)

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What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum; Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo. Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio; Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]

Loss Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Trinummus (IV, 3, 43)

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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est opus, Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]

Water Quotes, by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) , Source: Mostellaria (II, 1, 32)

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