Top 15 Most Famous Aristophanes Quotes And Sayings
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was a Greek poet and playwright of the Old Comedy, also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. Of his forty plays, eleven are extant, plus a thousand fragments of the others.
Aristophanes Quotes:
Aristophanes Quotes
1. Open your mind before your mouth.
― Aristophanes
2. Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
― Aristophanes
3. A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
― Aristophanes
4. You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
― Aristophanes
5. Under every rock lurks a politician.
― Aristophanes
6. By words the mind is winged.
― Aristophanes
7. You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
― Aristophanes
8. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
― Aristophanes
9. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.
― Aristophanes
10. A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
― Aristophanes
11. Let each man exercise the art he knows.
― Aristophanes
12. 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.
― Aristophanes
13. High thoughts must have high language.
― Aristophanes
14. It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
― Aristophanes
15. Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?
― Aristophanes
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