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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

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

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
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
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Clever Mindset Wine
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
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
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
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

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