First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANESWoman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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!
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