More Quotes by Aristophanes
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.