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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. – Aristophanes
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. – 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
