More Quotes by Aristophanes
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
By words the mind is winged
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember