Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESBy words the mind is winged.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There 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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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