Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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!
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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