Under every stone lurks a politician.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
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.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.