Aristophanes Quotes

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

The wise learn many things from their foes. - Aristophanes

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? - Aristophanes

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? - Aristophanes

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. - Aristophanes

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves. - Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . - Aristophanes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. - Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows. - Aristophanes

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