Aristophanes Quotes

Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

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• I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Want
  • Earth

• I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Actor

• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Child
  • Sister

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Perspective

• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Why
  • Government

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Moment

• There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wife

• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Media

• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Education
  • Like
  • Follow

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

• I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Up
  • School
  • America

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Moment
  • Internet

• My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Life
  • Book
  • Dream

• ... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Food
  • Anxiety
  • Christians

• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Records

• It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too.

  

  Kalki Koechlin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes