Quotes by : Aristophanes

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

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live....

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise....

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Open your mind before your mouth

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all that....

Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds!....

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

High thoughts must have high language.