Analytikos. To-morrow we will try the historians.
Menelaus. No! Not the historians. I want the truth for a change.
Analytikos. The truth!
Menelaus. Where in books can I find escape from the grim reality of being hitched for life to such a wife? Bah!
Analytikos. Philosophy teaches—
Menelaus. Why have the Gods made woman necessary to man, and made them fools?
Analytikos. For seventy years I have been resolving the problem of woman and even at my age—
Menelaus. Give it up, old man. The answer is—don't.
Analytikos. Such endless variety, and yet—
Menelaus [with the conviction of finality]. There are only two sorts of women! Those who are failures and those who realize it.