Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Aristophanes
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek poet Aristophanes.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
High thoughts must have high language.
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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.
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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.
Open your mind before your mouth
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
Old age is second childhood.
Today things are better than yesterday.
[Y]ou 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.
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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.
By words the mind is winged.
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
Comedy is allied to justice.
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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