You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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