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

Aristophanes

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

Friendship Listening
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
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!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine

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

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

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