Search quotes by author:    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 


Publilius Syrus Quotes


A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

He who spares the bad injures the good.