294 Quotes by Plautus

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.]

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.