Quote

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

Aristophanes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Shriek
Bluster
Listen
Friend
May
Firsts
First

More quotes by Aristophanes

Image
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
Aristophanes
Image
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophanes
Image
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
Aristophanes
Image
[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
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
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophanes
Image
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
Aristophanes
Image
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
Image
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
Aristophanes
Image
Do not take a blind guide.
Aristophanes
Image
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
Aristophanes
Image
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
Aristophanes
Image
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
Aristophanes
Image
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived she understands deceit too well herself.
Aristophanes