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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

Aristophanes

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANES

Honesty Insult Men Praise
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Clever Mindset Wine
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
Ye 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!
ARISTOPHANES

Children Humanity Life Men
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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