Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

- Aristophanes

Evil events from evil causes spring.

- Aristophanes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

- Aristophanes

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

- Aristophanes

High thoughts must have high language.

- Aristophanes

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

- Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

- Aristophanes

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.

- Aristophanes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

- Aristophanes

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

- Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

- Aristophanes

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

- Aristophanes

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

- Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

- Aristophanes

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

- Aristophanes

Under every stone lurks a politician.

- Aristophanes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

- Aristophanes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

- Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

- Aristophanes

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

- Aristophanes