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.
Quote by Aristophanes about politics, vulgarity, voice, bad luck, bad
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 send you.
Quote by Aristophanes about destiny, eyes
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
These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them!
Quote by Aristophanes about woman, impossible, poets, rightness
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 still lead the same life.
Quote by Aristophanes about wisdom, life, people
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
