I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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