You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESComedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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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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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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.
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