These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANESAn actor should refine public taste.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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