Aristophanes Comedy Quotes

#1. Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

Aristophanes

#2. I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

Sugata Mitra

#3. Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant.

Charles Duhigg

#4. ... the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.

Carlos Acosta

#5. The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Mason Cooley

#6. Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophanes

#7. Sometimes you build walls around your heart not to save yourself from hurt, but to see who loves you enough to break them and reach the real you.

Namrata

#8. What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping,
faces slapping
Left and right.

Aristophanes

#9. Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

William S. Burroughs

#10. She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.

Jane Smiley

#11. So when I look at spending more dollars, I look at the fact, do I really want my kids and your kids and everybody else's kids in this country to have to pay that bill?

Kristi Noem

#12. Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Hello, friend." Winter knelt in front of Scarlet's cage. "Hello, crazy," said Scarlet. It sounded like an endearment.

Marissa Meyer

#14. Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Tina Fey