Quotes by Aristophanes
20 quotes by Aristophanes
Aristophanes - greek Poet
Life period: 448 BC - 380 BC
Origin country: Greece
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
AQuote by Aristophanes about politics, vulgarity, voice, bad luck, bad
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
AQuote by Aristophanes about love, name
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
AQuote by Aristophanes about enemies, teaching, common sense, sense, war, man
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
AQuote by Aristophanes about destiny, eyes, contentment
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
AQuote by Aristophanes about intelligence, wine, mind
These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them!
AQuote by Aristophanes about woman, impossible, rightness, poets
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
AQuote by Aristophanes about life, adventure, nothing
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
AQuote by Aristophanes about wisdom, life, people
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
AQuote by Aristophanes about wisdom, contentment
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.
AQuote by Aristophanes about friendship, contentment
