Top 20 Martialis Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#5. 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
#6. Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time ... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.
Guido Molinari
#9. You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#10. The mortality rate among sea horses is not to be believed. Because the difference between a dead sea horse and a living sea horse is imperceptible, selling dead sea horses would make a very good pet store scam.
Sloane Crosley
#14. Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.
Steve Aylett
#17. Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
Josh Lanyon
#18. I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
Patrick Collison
#19. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
Morrissey
