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
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.
yesterday today
Today things are better than yesterday.
foxes subtlety
A fox is subtlety itself.
wine men busy
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
study
How can I study from below, that which is above?
children men way
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
life long long-life
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
leadership army skills
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
blessing watches extravagance
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
two thieves theft
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
taste actors should
An actor should refine public taste.
adversity grace trying
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
art fees
There's no art where there's no fee.
witty political politics
Under every stone lurks a politician.