Aristophanes Quotes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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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Children Humanity Life Men
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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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Chance Drink Women
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.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
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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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings

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