Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
children men way
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
father men age
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.
men gold honest
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
men slavery half
A slave is but half a man.
war winning men
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
wine men ideas
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.
wine men good-man
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
men debt owing
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
men wicked honest
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
men voice feminism
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.
cat men tails
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.
wine men busy
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
country men able
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
men rogues honest
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.