154 Quotes by Aristophanes

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

A slave is but half a man.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.