154 Quotes by Aristophanes

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Do not take a blind guide.

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

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.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.