You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESIt is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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