Failing Quote by Aristophanes Download Open image “The love of wine is a good man's failing.” — Aristophanes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Good man Love Love Wine Man Failing Men Wine Wine Good
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of… — Samuel Johnson 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 Image
“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 Image
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image