
““Harry!” Boutin said. “Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.””
Source: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 12 (p. 275)
““Harry!” Boutin said. “Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.””
Source: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 12 (p. 275)
“Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better”
Source: The Piper's Son
“Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limit of his means.”
Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intra
Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.
Variant translation: Believe me that he who has passed his time in retirement, has lived to a good end, and it behoves every man to live within his means
III, iv, 26
Tristia (Sorrows)
“For he lives twice who can at once employ
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”
Imitation of Martial, reported in Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence (1737), Vol. V, p. 232; The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 117. Compare: "Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui" (Translated: "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice"), Martial, X, 237.; "Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race", Abraham Cowley, Discourse XI, Of Myself, stanza xi.
“86. He that lives well is learned enough.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“I couldn’t see what you could show me
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
“He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.”
Luria, Act ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He listens well who takes notes.”
Canto XV, line 99 (tr. Clive James).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno