Aristophanes Quotes

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

An armistice—a cessation of hostilities—is the end of the struggle, and the insurgents would be in peaceable possession of all that has been struggled for.

If the war, which daily demands fresh sacrifices, is not to be indefinitely prolonged and to last until all nations are utterly exhausted, one of the belligerent Powers must extend the hand of peace

Truce is an old Arabic word. It goes way, way back in Islamic-Arabic culture, and it means, "We will get you later.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

You won't see me doing a lot of talking, but you'll see me doing a lot of playing.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

Talkers are no good doers.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.