Quotes by : Aristophanes

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

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

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

MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grief....

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly....

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

High thoughts must have high language.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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