Martial Valerius Quotes & Sayings

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it. — Marcus Valerius Martial

We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone, pushed by the shoulders like that, avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, then dismay--how could he resist the temptation to escape? — Alain-Fournier

There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

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

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. — Marcus Valerius Martial

The examination combines the techniques of an observing hierarchy and those of a normalizing judgement. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to qualify, to classify and to punish. It establishes over individuals a visibility through which one differentiates them and judges them. That is why, in all the mechanisms of discipline, the examination is highly ritualized. In it are combined the ceremony of power and the form of the experiment, the deployment of force and the establishment of truth. At the heart of the procedures of discipline, it manifests the subjection of those who are perceived as objects and the objectification of those who are subjected. The superimposition of the power relations and knowledge relations assumes in the examination all its visible brilliance. — Michel Foucault

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day. — Marcus Valerius Martial

There is no living with thee, nor without thee. — Marcus Valerius Martial

Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall in love with men: they just love being loved. — Charles Baxter

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. — Marcus Valerius Martial

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master. — Samuel Richardson

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

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for! — Marcus Valerius Martial

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete. — Mick Farren

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. — Marcus Valerius Martial