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Aristophanes Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: Greek Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 448 BC Year of Death: 380 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Aristophanes Related Authors: Sophocles Horace Aeschylus Euripides Hesiod Homer Menander |
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. Aristophanes Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes Evil events from evil causes spring. Aristophanes High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. Aristophanes Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes 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. Aristophanes Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. Aristophanes Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Aristophanes The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. Aristophanes Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. Aristophanes Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. Aristophanes You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Aristophanes You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. Aristophanes 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. Aristophanes |
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