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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

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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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Food Home Myself Vegetables
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
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 the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Clever Mindset Wine
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

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