Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? - Aristophanes
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
- Aristophanes
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever - Aristophanes
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. - Aristophanes
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which … - Aristophanes
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which …
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. - Aristophanes
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Open your mind before your mouth - Aristophanes
Open your mind before your mouth
A truce to idle phrases! - Aristophanes
A truce to idle phrases!
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. - Aristophanes
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Old age is but a second childhood. - Aristophanes
Old age is but a second childhood.
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