Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Aristophanes on friendship
Aristophanes88 quotes“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”
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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!
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.
AristophanesAristophanes You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
AristophanesAristophanes These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
AristophanesAristophanes The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
AristophanesAristophanes There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
AristophanesAristophanes By words the mind is winged.
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