Plautus Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

  Plautus

  Business, Two, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 85-87, Poenulus, I. 2. 1, 1922.

• The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
  [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

  Plautus

  Men, Giving, Profit

• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

  Plautus

  Men, Wrath, Giving

• If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

  Plautus

  Gratitude, Wrath, People

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