Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes

#1. I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

Ernest Borgnine

#2. You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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#3. A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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#4. The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Stockwell Day

#5. Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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#6. Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

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#7. Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

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#8. If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

Bob McKenzie

#9. There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

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#10. ...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.

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#11. Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

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#12. Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#13. It was more like a form of claustrophobia
a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.

Jan Struther

#14. Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi

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#15. If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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