Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot make a crab walk straight.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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