| 23 Famous Quotes by Aristophanes
[1-23]
|
|---|
|
“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”
Hunger Quotes |
|
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
Which you must travel in the steps they trod.”
Death Quotes Source: Fragment (II), translation by Cumberland
|
|
“Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.”
Man Quotes Source: Birds, translation by John Hookham Frere
|
|
“They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.”
Character Quotes Source: see Plutarch's "Life of Alcibiades" (Langhorne's translation)
|
|
“The old are in a second childhood.”
Age Quotes Source: The Clouds (l. 1417)
|
|
“Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.”
Vice Quotes Source: The Clouds
|
|
“Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle
four-cornered.”
Geometry Quotes Source: concerning the problem of squaring the circle
|
|
“Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a
Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?”
Clouds Quotes Source: Clouds, (Gerard's translation)
|
|
“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”
Hunger Quotes |
|
“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”
Inspirational Quotes |
|
“By words the mind is winged.”
Books and reading Quotes |
|
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.”
Death / immortality Quotes |
|
“The wise learn many things from their foes.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
|
“Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“Evil events from evil causes spring.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
|
“You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
| [1-23] |
Aristophanes Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
|
|
|