Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes More Quotes by Aristophanes More Quotes From Aristophanes Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. Aristophanes poet masters children If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not. Aristophanes cat tails men 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 age men father When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband. Aristophanes husband summer war There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Aristophanes untamed women fire Comedy is allied to justice. Aristophanes comedy justice lying Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it. Aristophanes husband children sex 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. Aristophanes best-friend two travel Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. Aristophanes men children way A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good. Aristophanes able men country Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes names desire love It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy. Aristophanes coarse poet taste 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! Aristophanes humanity men children Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way. Aristophanes gallant wind way When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends. Aristophanes wine busy men 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 wall friendship war Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? Aristophanes cracks laughter laughing Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? Aristophanes centaurs sky-and-clouds clouds An actor should refine public taste. Aristophanes actors taste should Wealth--the most excellent of all gods. Aristophanes wealth excellent
