It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANESIt is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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 demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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A slave is but half a man.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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