Terence

Film & Theater Rome 185 – 159 100 quotes

Roman adapter of Greek New Comedy, Terence's elegant Latin offered quotable social observations.

Quotes by Terence

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

Phormio

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Andria

Beggars can't be choosers.

Heauton Timorumenos

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Eunuchus

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Phormio

Curiosity killed the cat.

Andria

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Heauton Timorumenos

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Eunuchus

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Phormio

Silence is golden.

Andria

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

Heauton Timorumenos -163

Fortune helps the brave.

Phormio -166

Time removes distress.

Heauton Timorumenos -165

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Heauton Timorumenos -163

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself.

Adelphoe -166

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

Eunuchus -161

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Heauton Timorumenos -165

While there's life, there's hope.

Heauton Timorumenos -166

He who has patience has everything.

Andria -161

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Eunuchus -163