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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!

Aristophanes

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Politician Voice
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Fear Poor
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice

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