An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANESOne bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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A slave is but half a man.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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