“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“One’s country is wherever one does well.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
“Politics these days in no occupation for an honest man ... neither educated nor honest, he has to be an ignoramus & a rogue.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever"
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"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."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"Old age is second childhood."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!"
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath."
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!"
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)