Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Does 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.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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