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| Aristophanes Greek. Dramatist. Greatest comic playwright of ancient world; wrote 55 plays, 11 survive today.
"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible
voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. By words the mind is winged.Duke Ellington did not want to sound like anyone else; he
wanted to sound like himself.
Evil events from evil causes spring.Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?In a life so retired it was inevitable that the main events
should be the death of friends, and Emily Dickinson became a prolific
writer of notes of condolence.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. The liberals like his rhetoric and the conservatives like his
inaction.
The old are in a second childhood.The wise learn many things from their enemies.These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.Under every stone lurks a politician. Wise men learn many things from their enemies.Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.You cannot make a crab walk straight.You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. 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. |
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