Aristophanes Men Quotations

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

A slave is but half a man.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!