Aristophanes Quotes

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MYRRHINE Why, you've no blanket. CINESIAS It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want. MYRRHINE Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back. CINESIAS The woman will choke me with her coverlets. MYRRHINE Get up a moment. CINESIAS I'm up high enough. MYRRHINE

Shakespeare wrote sculduddery because he liked it, and for no other reason; his sensuality is the measure of his vitality.

How can it ever be right to wreck
A man because he’s time by the clock
As an elderly man grizzled and gray,
Who long ago struggled at your side
Mopping the copious
Manly sweat from his brow
When he bravely fought at Marathon
In defense of our city.

I was the first to make it understood
that reason could undermine the just premises of the good.

The man credited with inventing the comma, colon, and full stop punctuation marks was a librarian of Alexandria called Aristophanes.

HOROVOĐA MUŠKOG HORA:
Ni sa kojom zverkom no sa ženom
nije teži boj,
nit je oganj tako nit je panter
besan ijedan.

HOROVOĐA ŽENSKOG HORA:
To ti znadeš, al opet, rđo,
sa mnom ratuješ,
a ja verna mogla bih ti biti
prijateljica?

If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect.

πρὸς τάδ’ ἡμῖν, εἴ τι χρὴ δρᾶν, φράζε κἀρχιτεκτόνει.

One's country is wherever one does well.

Où l'on est bien, là est la patrie.

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

What’s the use of crowbars? It’s not crowbars that we need, it’s intelligence and common sense

LYSISTRATA By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you Four companies of most pugnacious women Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl To the lowest angry dimple. MAGISTRATE

Socrate. Tiens-tu quelque chose ?
Strepsiade. Non, par Zeus, non certes.
Socrate. Rien du tout ?
Strepsiade. Rien... que ma verge dans ma main droite.

My country's where my comfort's best secured.