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.
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.
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
Open your mind before your mouth
