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 Copy Share Image
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to… — Aristophanes Copy Share
“LYSISTRATA By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you Four companies of most pugnacious women Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl To… — Aristophanes Copy Share
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever… — Aristophanes Copy Share
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing… — Aristophanes Copy Share
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… — Aristophanes Copy Share
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… — Aristophanes Copy Share
“LYSISTRATA You know how to work. Play with him, lead him on, Seduce him to the cozening-point—kiss him, kiss him, Then slip your mouth… — Aristophanes Copy Share
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. — Aristophanes Copy Share
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember. — Aristophanes Copy Share
