Quotes by Terence

• You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
• You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
• While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
• Where there's life, there's hope.
• What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
• We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
• Too much liberty corrupts us all.
• To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
• This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
• They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
• What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
• You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
• Moderation in all things.
• In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
• Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
• I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
• Nothing is said that has not been said before.
• Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
• Of my friends I am the only one left.
• Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
• Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
• Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
• She ne'er was really charming till she died.
• Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
• I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
• I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
• How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
• Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
• Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
• For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
• Fortune favors the brave.
• He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
• I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
• I do not give money for just mere hopes.
• How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
• There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
• So many men, so many opinions.
• Their silence is praise enough.
• The anger of lovers renews their love.
• They are so knowing, that they know nothing.