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Aristophanes

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ARISTOPHANES ARISTOPHANES You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES ARISTOPHANES Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES ARISTOPHANES Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES ARISTOPHANES You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...
ARISTOPHANES Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you mu...
ARISTOPHANES By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or with...
ARISTOPHANES Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES The wise learn many things from their foes.
ARISTOPHANES Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and fe...
ARISTOPHANES The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.
ARISTOPHANES They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
ARISTOPHANES The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which ...
ARISTOPHANES High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulg...
ARISTOPHANES Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's yo...
ARISTOPHANES These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or ...
ARISTOPHANES Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANES Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
ARISTOPHANES Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES [Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally ...
ARISTOPHANES This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer...
ARISTOPHANES Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?
ARISTOPHANES A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
ARISTOPHANES One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves
ARISTOPHANES To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...
ARISTOPHANES Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives
ARISTOPHANES [Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...
ARISTOPHANES Open your mind before your mouth
ARISTOPHANES Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of...
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