294 Quotes by Plautus

Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.