"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever."
— Aristophanes

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."
— Aristophanes

"Let each man exercise the art he knows."
— Aristophanes

"By words the mind is winged."
— Aristophanes

"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever."
— Aristophanes

"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life."
— Aristophanes

"High thoughts must have high language."
— Aristophanes (Frogs and Other Plays)

"Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big?

Lysistrata: Very big.

Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too?

Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout.

Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come?

Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that."
— Aristophanes (Lysistrata)