If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANESWhy, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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You 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.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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