Plautus

Film & Theater Rome 254 – 184 93 quotes

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

Quotes by Plautus

No news is good news.

Mostellaria

One good turn deserves another.

Asinaria

Practice makes perfect.

Trinummus

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Mostellaria

Still waters run deep.

Miles Gloriosus

The grass is always greener on the other side.

Mercator

There's no accounting for taste.

Aulularia

Time flies when you're having fun.

Captivi

Two heads are better than one.

Trinummus

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

Miles Gloriosus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Truculentus -200

Practice yourself what you preach.

Asinaria -205

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Mostellaria -200

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Rudens -190

No man is wise enough by himself.

Trinummus -210

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Aulularia -200

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound.

Bacchides -195

In the one hand water, in the other an empty food sack.

Pseudolus -200

You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.

Menaechmi -205

I am a man of peace, but not a man of war.

Miles Gloriosus -190