When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESYou can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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You cannot teach a crab to 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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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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