A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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