Quotes from Ancient Times
Aristophanes ( 450-385 BC )
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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.
Let me net it out for you," the pastor says as he concludes a sermon.
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.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
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.
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
Memorable Quotes
By words the mind is winged.
By words the mind is winged.
Comedy is allied to justice.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
High thoughts must have high language.
Open your mind before your mouth.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Insightful Quotes cards
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
High thoughts must have high language.
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
A man can learn wisdom even from a foe.