Quotes from Aristophanes

You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

A savage-creating stubborn-pulling fellow,Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech,Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

For then, in wrath, the Olympian PericlesThundered and lightened, and confounded HellasEnacting laws which ran like drinking songs.

Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike.

There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.

Old men are children for a second time.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

These impossible women! How they do get around us!The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Halcyon days.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways,Are the children of Men.

I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.

Somewhere, what with all these clouds, and all this air,There must be a rare name, somewhere… How do you like "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land"?

A woman's time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn't seize it, no one wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens.

To make the worse appear the better reason.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Who knows whether living is dying, and breathingIs eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?