Aristophanes quotes

" You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. " # Politicians and Politics # Vulgarity # Manners

" Under every stone lurks a politician. " # Politicians and Politics

" By words the mind is winged. " # Words

" Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh " # Laughter # Jokes and Jokers # Failure

" Wise men learn many things from their enemies. " # Enemies # Learning # Wisdom

" Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. " # Wisdom # Law and Lawyers # Life and Living

" These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. " # Women # Poetry and Poets # Men and Women

" Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. " # Death and Dying # Friends and Friendship # Travel and Tourism

" Let each man exercise the art he knows. " # Arts and Artists

" 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 to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. " # Family # Chelsea Handler # America