Aristophanes Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 8, 2024
‘Under every stone lurks a politician.’ – Aristophanes
‘You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.’ – Aristophanes
‘Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.’ – Aristophanes
‘Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.’ – Aristophanes
‘Let each man exercise the art he knows.’ – Aristophanes
‘Under every stone lurks a politician.’ – Aristophanes
‘You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.’ – Aristophanes
‘Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.’ – Aristophanes
‘Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.’ – Aristophanes
‘Let each man exercise the art he knows.’ – Aristophanes
‘The wise learn many things from their enemies.’ – Aristophanes
‘Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.’ – Aristophanes
‘These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them.’ – Aristophanes
‘A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.’ – 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
‘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
‘High thoughts must have high language.’ – Aristophanes
‘Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.’ – Aristophanes
‘Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don’t believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?’ – Aristophanes
‘A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.’ – Aristophanes
‘Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.’ – Aristophanes
‘You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.’ – Aristophanes
‘Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.’ – Aristophanes
‘Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.’ – Aristophanes
‘Evil events from evil causes spring.’ – Aristophanes