In Belgium, the magistrate
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king. Emile Verhaeren
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In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king. Emile Verhaeren
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus. Edward Gibbon
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
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night. Donald C. Peattie
Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl). Diana Wynne Jones
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don’t sit down without one of the gods. D. H. Lawrence
The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don’t like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption … Read more
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.” … Read more
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine. Ben Jonson
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes