The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Old age is second childhood.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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