Aristophanes ( 450-385 BC )
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
By words the mind is winged.
Comedy is allied to justice.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
A man may learn wisdom even from 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.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
"Let me net it out for you," the pastor says as he concludes a sermon.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
High thoughts must have high language.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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.