Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.
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
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 …
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.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever - Aristophanes
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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
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.
A truce to idle phrases! - Aristophanes
A truce to idle phrases!
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