Bacchus Quotes

• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wine, Piano

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

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Drinking, Health, Men

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• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Jesus, Religion, Dry

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl,
  Then sleep the sorrows of our soul.
  Let us drink the juice divine,
  The gift of Bacchus, god of wine.
  When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

  Anacreon

  Wine, Sleep, Soul

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
  Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

  John Milton

  Crush, Sweet, Wine

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Life, Song

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.

  Carl Sagan

  Wine, Science, Night

  "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science".

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

  Robert Burns

  Stupid, Drinking, Food

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• Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

  Homer

  Wine, Mind, Body

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

  Rick Riordan

  Tools, Destruction

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• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

  Horace

  Strong, Wine, Boys

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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• Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Games, Giants

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• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Food

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

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• What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Excess, Surrender

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I’m not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus) Whoa, hang on a second. Let’s save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Boys, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.448, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Give me a bowl of wine,
  In this I bury all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Giving, Give Me

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

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• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Wine, Apples, Giving

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