Plautus

Film & Theater Rome 254 – 184 93 quotes

Roman comic playwright whose farces influenced Shakespeare, featuring quotable stock character wit.

Quotes by Plautus

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Trinummus

A man who is good for anything ought not to be a coward.

Miles Gloriosus

He who has a mind to do good, let him do it quickly.

Trinummus

The best way to keep a secret is to tell it to no one.

Aulularia

A good name is better than riches.

Trinummus

You can't get something for nothing.

Persa

Better to be safe than sorry.

Aulularia

The truth is always the best policy.

Captivi

Fortune helps the brave.

Mostellaria

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Trinummus

He who hesitates is lost.

Epidicus

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Cistellaria

A woman's mind is a labyrinth.

Miles Gloriosus

The more you have, the more you want.

Aulularia

Silence is a confession.

Stichus

To err is human.

Menaechmi

A hungry belly has no ears.

Poenulus

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Trinummus

The die is cast.

Aulularia

You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

Asinaria