Best Aristophanes Quotes
- You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along. Along
- 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… Beaker
- You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Cannot Teach
- 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… Blister
- Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? Any
- Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. Feeder
- You cannot make a crab walk straight. Cannot Make
- To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. Arse
- Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . Astronomer
- These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! Get Around
- Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me. Funny
- Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? Bull
- Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. Eye
- Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. All
- One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves. Bush
- By words the mind is winged. Funny
- Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. Age
- Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it… Big
- Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. Desire
- To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. Always Cook
- [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… All
- [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. Allies
- 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… Attack
- Open your mind before your mouth Inspirational
- You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. Both