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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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By words the mind is winged.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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