Marcus Valerius Quotes

#1. Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#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!

Marcus Valerius Martial

#3. Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody's undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel experience.

Robert Galbraith

#4. A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martial

#5. Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#6. Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Laugh if you are wise, girl, laugh.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

#9. True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.

Tony Williams

#10. You ask what a nice girl will do?She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#11. Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#12. Because he hates to praise by name
He praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice".

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

#14. I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger

Jill Shalvis

#15. You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#16. Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Adriana Trigiani

#17. Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#18. I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

Sarah Moore Grimke

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

#21. Flaccus, the sort of girl I hate
Is the scrawny one, with arms so thin
My rings would fit them, hips that grate,
Spine like a saw, knees like a pin
And a coccyx like a javelin.
But all the same I don't go in
For sheer bulk. I appreciate
Good meat, not blubber, on my plate.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

#24. 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

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

#26. A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#27. I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Eminem