Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESEven if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESThe love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESComedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANESWhen 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.
ARISTOPHANESTo invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANESAn insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANESWomen, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
ARISTOPHANESIt often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESYou can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANESOld age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESWords give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANESTis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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