Aristophanes's quotes

This is a page to post quotes and other educational material from Aristophanes plays. 

Scroll down the page please, to read the titles of his 11 plays survived.

If you were curious to know how popular today Aristophanes is, you could just go search IMDb to find more than 20 movie titles which use Aristophanes's plots. 

Extant plays: 

1. The Acharnians 425 BC
2. The Knights 424 BC 
3.  The Clouds 423 BC 
4. The Wasps 422 BC 
5. Peace 421 BC 
6. The Birds 414 BC 
7. Lysistrata 411 BC 
8. Thesmophoriazusae 411 BC 
9. The Frogs 405 BC 
10. Ecclesiazusae c.392 BC 
11. Wealth II 388 BC

Quotes 

“Wise men 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 men, though all laws were abolished, 

would lead the same lives” 

“Let each man exercise the art that he knows”

more quotes

If you like to read the complete plays in English here are anonymous free translations  http://drama.eserver.org/plays/classical/aristophanes/