More Quotes by Aristophanes
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
By words the mind is winged
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.