Skip to content

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

— Aristophanes

Another quote →

Topics

Men

More quotes by Aristophanes

I intend to measure out the air for you—dividing it in surveyed lots.

How sweet a drink is wine, the milk of Aphrodite.

No honour to a young wife is an old husband.

To be afraid of death is idle folly,
For 'tis a debt that all of us must pay.

Variant:You won't persuade [peiseis] me even if you convince [peisēs] me.

All Aristophanes quotes →

You may also like

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.

Ethan Allen

Men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world.

Chinweizu Ibekwe Anatomy of Female Power (1990)

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

John Dryden Don Sebastian (1690)

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

Ann Coulter The Cornell Review (1984)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Aristophanes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.