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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
ARISTOPHANES

Break Thinking Try
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women

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