Quoted By:
Ancient Greece:
470–399 BC: Socrates
>"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."
446–386 BC: Aristophanes
>"[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you (women) cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell"
—Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 [15]
>[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. —Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 [16]
>Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself."
—Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, line 236-238
There is but one thing in the world worse than a shameless woman, and that's another woman.
—Thesmorphoriazusae
