Titus Maccius Plautus

“To blow and to swallow at the same moment is not easy.”

“No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.”

“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”

“No man is so old but thinks he may live another year.”

“Practice is the best of all instructors.”

“In everything, the middle course is best.”

“What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.”

“A word to the wise is sufficient.”

“The gods play games with men as men play with balls.”

“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”

“Those whom the gods love die young.”

“Courage in danger is half the battle.”

“How often the highest talent is buried in obscurity.”

“A man is a wolf to another man.”

“Your name is a foreshadowing of your destiny.”

“Things are not always what they seem.”

“He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”

“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”

“The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.”

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”