Quotes from Aristophanes

Lysistrata: Calonice, it's more than I can bear, I am hot all over with blushes for our sex. Men say we're slippery rogues-- Calonice: And aren't they right?

Under every rock lurks a politician.

Let's smell like women, armed to teeth with rage!

Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein, Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets, Our whole life's but a pile of kisses and babies. But, hardy Spartan, if you join with me All may be righted yet. O help me, help me.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

the swallows, fleeing before the hoopoes, shall have all flocked together in one place, and shall refrain them from all amorous commerce, then will be the end of all the ills of life; yea, and Zeus, which doth thunder in the skies, shall set above what was erst below....

Politics these days in no occupation for an honest man ... neither educated nor honest, he has to be an ignoramus & a rogue.

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

But how should women perform so wise and glorious an achievement, we women who dwell in the retirement of the household, clad in diaphanous garments of yellow silk and long flowing gowns, decked out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers?

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

A prudent person after all can pick something Even from an enemy.

MEN Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for? WOMEN What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?

Have you ever been struck by a sudden desire for - soup?

Numai moartea nu cere daruri dintre zei.

What's the use of crowbars? It's not crowbars that we need, it's intelligence and common sense

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 aside just as he's sure of it, Ungirdle every caress his mouth feels at Save that the oath upon the bowl has locked. MYRRHINE

MYRRHINE Why, you've no blanket. CINESIAS It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want. MYRRHINE Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back. CINESIAS The woman will choke me with her coverlets. MYRRHINE Get up a moment. CINESIAS I'm up high enough. MYRRHINE

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Shakespeare wrote sculduddery because he liked it, and for no other reason; his sensuality is the measure of his vitality.

SÉ™nÉ™t çörÉ™k arxas?nca qaçarsa, alçalar

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 the lowest angry dimple. MAGISTRATE

In days when men were men (And you should have seen us then)

shit yourself