Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANESIgnorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANESWhen 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.
ARISTOPHANESWomen, 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!
ARISTOPHANESWhat unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANESWise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANESYouth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANESWealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESYou 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.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESOld age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESWeak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANESWhen men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESWoman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANESIf a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANESLove is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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