Aristophanes quotes - page 2

Just Discourse: Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age. (Aristophanes)
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. View quote
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Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. View quote
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Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, p. 361) View quote
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. View quote
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Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) View quote
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Poet: "Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.” Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. View quote
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[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus) View quote
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. View quote
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Strepsiades: Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus. (tr. in Lippmann 1929, p. 1 and 4) View quote
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Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) (Aristophanes)
Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus) View quote
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Leader of the Chorus: Let's see. What shall our city be called? [...] Euelpides: Some name borrowed from the clouds, from these lofty regions in which we dwell - in short, some well-known name. Pisthetaerus: Do you like Nephelococcygia? (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) View quote
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. View quote
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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. View quote
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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. View quote
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You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. View quote
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The wise learn many things from their enemies. View quote
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. View quote
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. View quote
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Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me. (Aristophanes)
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. View quote
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Evil events from evil causes spring. View quote
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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. View quote
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Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh. View quote
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