Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANESDo not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
More Aristophanes Quotes
-
-
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES -
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES -
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES -
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES -
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES -
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES -
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES -
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES -
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES -
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES -
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES -
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES -
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES -
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.
ARISTOPHANES -
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
ARISTOPHANES