What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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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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