Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
ARISTOPHANESIgnorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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