Words Worth Noting - August 5, 2023

“Count me out. I’d rather die. Why, those vampires would suck me dry. They’d scrape the tan right off my face.”

Pheidippides resisting his father Strepsiades’ advice to study at Sokrates’ Thinkery so he can learn to cheat Strepsiades’ creditors, in Aristophanes The Clouds (translation by William Arrowsmith)