Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

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.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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