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!
ARISTOPHANESWomen, 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!
ARISTOPHANESWords give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANESFirst listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANESYou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
ARISTOPHANESDo not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANESI saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANESThe old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESThis 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.
ARISTOPHANESAn insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANESDoes it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANESComedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANESCharacteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANESYe Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
ARISTOPHANESA man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANESThere is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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