Open your mind before your mouth

Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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

Under every stone lurks a politician.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever