Aristophanes Quotes, Thoughts and images

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Open your mind before your mouth

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

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

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Comedy is allied to justice.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

By words the mind is winged.

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

High thoughts must have high language.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

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

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

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

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

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Old age is second childhood.

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

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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

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

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

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

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

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

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Wealth the most excellent of all gods.

Today things are better than yesterday.

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

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

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

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

You cannot make a crab walk straight.