What did Juvenal mean by: There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. - Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Insults You, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. – Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Censorship, Dove, Ravens, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The finishing stroke of all sorrow. Feraz Zeid, August 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Finishing, Sorrow, Strokes, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Rare is the union of beauty and purity. Feraz Zeid, September 17, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Beautiful, Beauty, Rome, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Even savage animals can agree among themselves. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Agreement, Animal, Savages, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 24, 2023, Juvenal, Dishonesty, Kindness, Lying, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian’s tax on ordure.] Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Money, Smell, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Heirs, Profit, Wealth, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. - Maud Hart Lovelace
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool’s coat thither. - William Gurnall Clergyman · England
Truth has as many coats as an onion … and each one of them hollow when you peel it off. - Helen Waddell
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet · USA
We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out. - Henry Watson Fowler
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked. - Giordano Bruno
