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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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A slave is but half a man.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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