Open your mind before your mouth

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.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.