Aristophanes Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Aristophanes
Aristophanes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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.
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
That is what we do each time we see someone who falls in love with evil strategies, until we hurl him into misery, so he may learn to fear the Gods.
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
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.
Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better.
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better.
MEN Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for? WOMEN What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping,
faces slapping
Left and right.
faces slapping
Left and right.
need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like 'many are gone, and those that live are bad'.12
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.