It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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By words the mind is winged.
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