Quote

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Aristophanes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Teach
Cannot
Crab
Crabs
Straight
Walk
Walks
Teacher

More quotes by Aristophanes

Image
Today things are better than yesterday.
Aristophanes
Image
You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
Aristophanes
Image
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
Aristophanes
Image
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
Aristophanes
Image
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
Aristophanes
Image
The old are in a second childhood.
Aristophanes
Image
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
Aristophanes
Image
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes
Image
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Aristophanes
Image
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
Image
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
Aristophanes
Image
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
Aristophanes
Image
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
Image
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
Aristophanes
Image
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
Aristophanes
Image
You will never make the crab walk straight.
Aristophanes
Image
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
Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
Aristophanes
Image
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Aristophanes
Image
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
Aristophanes