More Quotes by Aristophanes
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.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
