“Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselvesMagistrate: You do?Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?Magistrate: But that is not the same thing.Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing?Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War.Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!”

“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”

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

“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”

“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

“You cannot make a crab walk straight.”

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

“Evil events from evil causes spring.”

“The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.”

“Under every stone lurks a politician.”

“Open your mind before your mouth”