When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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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.
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