When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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

Old age is but a second childhood.

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.