More Quotes by Aristophanes
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember
Under every stone lurks a politician.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
