There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANESYe 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!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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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 teach a crab to walk straight.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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