Known sourcecanonical
"What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours."
Plautus / Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48. (329.)
Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48. (329.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Showing 1–16 of 16 entries
View sourceProvenance page
Known sourcecanonical
"Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired."
Plautus / Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 88. (367.)
Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 88. (367.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad."
Plautus / Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 111. (392.)
Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 111. (392.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"He whom the gods favour dies in youth."
Plautus / Bacchides. Act iv. Sc. 7, 18. (816.)
Bacchides. Act iv. Sc. 7, 18. (816.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."
Plautus / Menæchmi. Act ii. Sc. 1, 22. (247.)
Menæchmi. Act ii. Sc. 1, 22. (247.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other."
Plautus / Aulularia. Act ii. Sc. 2, 18. (195.)
Aulularia. Act ii. Sc. 2, 18. (195.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock."
Plautus / Aulularia. Act iii. Sc. 4, 13. (472.)
Aulularia. Act iii. Sc. 4, 13. (472.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand."
Plautus / Aulularia. Act iv. Sc. 3, 1. (624.)
Aulularia. Act iv. Sc. 3, 1. (624.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."
Plautus / Captivi. Act ii. Sc. 2, 77. (327.)
Captivi. Act ii. Sc. 2, 77. (327.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
Plautus / Rudens. Act ii. Sc. 5, 71.
Rudens. Act ii. Sc. 5, 71.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you."
Plautus / Rudens. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3. (1229.)
Rudens. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3. (1229.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."
Plautus / Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15. (868.)
Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15. (868.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."
Plautus / Epidicus. Act iii. Sc. 3, 44. (425.)
Epidicus. Act iii. Sc. 3, 44. (425.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope."
Plautus / Mostellaria. Act i. Sc. 3, 40. (197.)
Mostellaria. Act i. Sc. 3, 40. (197.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy."
Plautus / Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 104. (791.)
Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 104. (791.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Known sourcecanonical
"Each man reaps on his own farm."
Plautus / Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 112. (799.)
Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 112. (799.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain