Aristophanes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.Collection: Wisdom
Let each man exercise the art he knows.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Travel
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.Collection: Travel
Under every stone lurks a politician.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: War
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.Collection: Stupid
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.Collection: Love
Open your mind before your mouthCollection: Mind
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is foreverCollection: Ignorance
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.Collection: Life
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.Collection: Long
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.Collection: Clever
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.Collection: Men
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Collection: Voice
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.Collection: Men
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.Collection: Teacher
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.Collection: Two
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.Collection: Men
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.Collection: Children
The wise learn many things from their enemies.Collection: Life
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.Collection: Salary
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.Collection: May
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.Collection: Lying
By words the mind is winged.Collection: Mind
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.Collection: Honesty
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.Collection: Comedy
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!Collection: Impossible
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.Collection: Children
Evil events from evil causes spring.Collection: Spring
Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Men
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!Collection: Women
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.Collection: Ideas
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!Collection: Children
Do not take a blind guide.Collection: Blind
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!Collection: Total War
The old are in a second childhood.Collection: Childhood
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.Collection: Love
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.Collection: Essence
You will never make the crab walk straight.Collection: Crabs
A truce to idle phrases!Collection: Phrases
An actor should refine public taste.Collection: Actors
Old age is but a second childhood.Collection: Children
You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.Collection: Knows
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.Collection: Dream
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .Collection: Work
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.Collection: Believe
A slave is but half a man.Collection: Men
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.Collection: Food