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.

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

The old are in a second childhood.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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