“ Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. Aristophanes
“ These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. Aristophanes
“ It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls Aristophanes
“ Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em. Aristophanes
“ Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for just… Aristophanes
“ Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Aristophanes
“ Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds! We shall see them building ships, and fighting sea-fights like Artemisia; nay if they want t… Aristophanes
“ [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
“ 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. Aristophanes
“ 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… Aristophanes
