Marcus Valerius Martialis Quotes & Sayings

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

You ask what a nice girl will do?She won't give an inch,but she won't say no. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Because he hates to praise by name
He praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice". — Marcus Valerius Martialis

...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Flaccus, the sort of girl I hate
Is the scrawny one, with arms so thin
My rings would fit them, hips that grate,
Spine like a saw, knees like a pin
And a coccyx like a javelin.
But all the same I don't go in
For sheer bulk. I appreciate
Good meat, not blubber, on my plate. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Laugh if you are wise, girl, laugh. — Marcus Valerius Martialis