Best Aristophanes Sayings
- Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Desire
- The wise learn many things from their foes. Foes
- Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives Abolished
- Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you. Courtesy
- Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Argument
- It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls. Building
- To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies Garlanded
- You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. All
- Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever. Ages