Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Aristophanes
Aristophanes -
Man
Quotes
17 Sourced Quotes
View all Aristophanes Quotes
Source
Report...
Informer:
My friend, I am asking you for wings, not for words.
Pisthetaerus:
It's just my words that gives you wings.
Informer:
And how can you give a man wings with your words?
Pisthetaerus:
They all start this way. [...]
Informer:
So that words give wings?
Pisthetaerus:
Undoubtedly; words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Thus I hope that my wise words will give you wings to fly to some less degrading trade.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
[Choir of] Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
Yet I have not been seen frequenting the wrestling school intoxicated with success and trying to seduce young boys; but I took all my theatrical gear and returned straight home. I pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience rebuked me for nothing. Hence both grown men and youths should be on my side and I likewise invite the bald to give me their votes; for, if I triumph, everyone will say, both at table and at festivals, Carry this to the bald man, give these cakes to the bald one, do not grudge the poet whose talent shines as bright as his own bare skull the share he deserves.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
Blest the man who possesses a
Keen intelligent mind.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
Man is a truly cunning creature.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way!
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
Aristophanes
Source
Report...
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Aristophanes
Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
Aristophanes
Creative Commons
Born:
446 BC
Died:
386 BC
(aged 60)
More about Aristophanes...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes