"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."

"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."

"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."

"I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring."

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

"Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful."