black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Aristophanes

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
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!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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!
ARISTOPHANES

Children Humanity Life Men
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Tis 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.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aristophanes Quotes