Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESThe old are in a second childhood.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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