Aristophanes Quotes

Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

Aristophanes

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• I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• Radio is for driving.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Driving
  • Radio

• The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Knowledge

• Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Time
  • War
  • Hand

• I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Support
  • System
  • Capitalist

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Song
  • Always
  • Screw

• I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Drive
  • Classic

• Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Feeling
  • Choices
  • Now

• I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Baseball
  • Ballet

• Ever since the first day I arrived in this town, the general impression has been that I'm like a queen holding court on chosen days.

  

  Irene Dunne

• There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great

• I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'

  

  Leslie Bibb
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Wife

• I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Together
  • Hate

• There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

  

  Pete du Pont
  • Different
  • Today

• Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes