Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Men
Bandy
Cherished
Reproach
Treat
Treats
Age
Words
Father
More quotes by Aristophanes
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Aristophanes
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
Aristophanes
[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.
Aristophanes
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived she understands deceit too well herself.
Aristophanes
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
Aristophanes
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Aristophanes
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
Aristophanes
A truce to idle phrases!
Aristophanes
Old age is second childhood.
Aristophanes
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
Aristophanes
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
Aristophanes
You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
Aristophanes
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
Aristophanes
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
Aristophanes
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes
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
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
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
Aristophanes
Old age is but a second childhood.
Aristophanes