Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

[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.

By words the mind is winged.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

Open your mind before your mouth