Lead Lives Quotes by Aristophanes

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to…

— Aristophanes

“LYSISTRATA By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you Four companies of most pugnacious women Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl To…

— Aristophanes

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

— Aristophanes

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever…

— Aristophanes

Old age is second childhood.

— Aristophanes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

— Aristophanes

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his…

— Aristophanes

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to…

— Aristophanes

“LYSISTRATA You know how to work. Play with him, lead him on, Seduce him to the cozening-point—kiss him, kiss him, Then slip your mouth…

— Aristophanes

[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.

— Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

— Aristophanes

How can I study from below, that which is above?

— Aristophanes

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

— Aristophanes

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

— Aristophanes