There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANESYou can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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