Aristophanes on children
Aristophanes88 quotes“Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.”
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
AristophanesAristophanes The old are in a second childhood.
AristophanesAristophanes Today things are better than yesterday.
AristophanesAristophanes Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
AristophanesAristophanes Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
AristophanesAristophanes 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!
AristophanesAristophanes 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.
AristophanesAristophanes You cannot make a crab walk straight.
AristophanesAristophanes To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
AristophanesAristophanes When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
AristophanesAristophanes Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
AristophanesAristophanes A fox is subtlety itself.
AristophanesAristophanes There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
AristophanesAristophanes A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
AristophanesAristophanes Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
AristophanesAristophanes It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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