Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Women, 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!
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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This 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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Old age is second childhood.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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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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