Aristophanes Quotes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Today things are better than yesterday.

Wealth the most excellent of all gods.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

Old age is second childhood.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

High thoughts must have high language.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

By words the mind is winged.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Comedy is allied to justice.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Open your mind before your mouth

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever