By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANESI saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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