![A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3832p29.jpg)
Quotes by Aristophanes
20 quotes by Aristophanes
![A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3832p29.jpg)
![A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3834p99.jpg)
![Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3839p126.jpg)
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Quote by Aristophanes about politics, vulgarity, voice, bad luck, bad
![Evil events from evil causes spring.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3842p41.jpg)
![High thoughts must have high language.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3845p262.jpg)
![Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3848p259.jpg)
![Let each man exercise the art he knows.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3851p70.jpg)
![Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3854p132.jpg)
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Quote 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.
Quote by Aristophanes about enemies, teaching, common sense, sense, war, man
![Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3861p233.jpg)
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Quote by Aristophanes about destiny, eyes
![Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3863p41.jpg)
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Quote by Aristophanes about intelligence, wine, mind
![The wise learn many things from their enemies.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3868p197.jpg)
![The wise learn many things from their foes.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3869p122.jpg)
![These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3871p125.jpg)
These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them!
Quote by Aristophanes about woman, impossible, rightness, poets
![Under every stone lurks a politician.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3875p86.jpg)
![Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3879p38.jpg)
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Quote by Aristophanes about life, adventure, nothing
![Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3882p263.jpg)
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Quote by Aristophanes about wisdom, life, people
![You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3885p101.jpg)
![You should not decide until you have heard what both have...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3888p217.jpg)
![Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-3890p103.jpg)
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.
Quote by Aristophanes about friendship