Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANESAristophanes Quotes
Walk of life:Playwright
Born:Classical Athens
Died:Delphi, Greece
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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