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There’s no art where there’s no fee (Aristophanes Quotes)
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath (Aristophanes Quotes)
A slave is but half a man (Aristophanes Quotes)
The love of wine is a good man’s failing (Aristophanes Quotes)
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy (Aristophanes Quotes)
You will never make the crab walk straight (Aristophanes Quotes)
Do not take a blind guide (Aristophanes Quotes)
A fox is subtlety itself (Aristophanes Quotes)
Today things are better than yesterday (Aristophanes Quotes)
A truce to idle phrases! (Aristophanes Quotes)
Need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad'. (Aristophanes Quotes)
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls (Aristophanes Quotes)
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever (Aristophanes Quotes)
Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation (Aristophanes Quotes)
Leader of the chorus: an insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud (Aristophanes Quotes)
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever (Aristophanes Quotes)
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, at which the audience never fail to laugh? (Aristophanes Quotes)
Weak mortals, chained to the Earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream (Aristophanes Quotes)
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of men (Aristophanes Quotes)
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Women: and yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily (Aristophanes Quotes)
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? (Aristophanes Quotes)
Oftentimes have we reflected on a similar abuse In the choice of men for office, and of coins for common use; for your old and standard pieces, valued and approved and tried, here among the Grecian nations, and in all the world beside, recognized in every realm for trusty stamp and pure assay, are rejected and abandoned for the trash of yesterday; for a vile, adulterate issue, drossy, counterfeit and base, which the traffic of the city passes current in their place! (Aristophanes Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them (Aristophanes Quotes)
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner (Aristophanes Quotes)
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 (Aristophanes Quotes)
Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true (Aristophanes Quotes)
Chorus : Come now, ye men, in nature darkling, like to the race of leaves, of little might, figures of clay, shadowy feeble tribes, wingless creatures of a day, miserable mortals, dream-like men (Aristophanes Quotes)
Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus (Aristophanes Quotes)