These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
Open your mind before your mouth
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.