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.

By words the mind is winged.

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .