What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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