Aristophanes Quotes
Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)
Aristophanes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
Tavi Gevinson
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli
-
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris
-
But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
Beatrice Dalle
-
With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
R. Kelly
-
It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
Omari Hardwick
-
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Ian Hart
-
There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible.
Douglas Trumbull
-
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
-
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry Kissinger
-
Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)
Aristophanes
