Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESThis is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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