Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Nations
Toll
Voice
Tolls
Feminism
Born
Prejudice
Something
Provide
Men
Nation
Present
Advantageous
Situation
Taxed
More quotes by Aristophanes
You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
Aristophanes
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
Aristophanes
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
Aristophanes
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
Today things are better than yesterday.
Aristophanes
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
Aristophanes
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
Aristophanes
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
Aristophanes
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophanes
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
Aristophanes
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
Aristophanes
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
Aristophanes
A truce to idle phrases!
Aristophanes
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
Aristophanes
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Aristophanes
Old age is but a second childhood.
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
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
Aristophanes
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
