Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

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.