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

    Fighting   Games   Giants  
  • 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.

    Sweet   Pain   Drinking  
    'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57
  • 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 of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

    Charlaine Harris (2011). “True Blood Omnibus: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead”, p.248, Hachette UK
  • (Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.

    Drinking   Mad   Worship  
  • In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

    Kings   Beer   Dignity  
  • 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.

    Two   History   Venus  
    Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.394
  • Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

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

    Clever   Wine   Mind  
    "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..
  • Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

    Cheer   Wine   Giving  
    William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan
  • He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

    Love   Life   Song  
    "Luther's Works: Table talk".
  • 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.

    Romantic   Food   Wine  
    "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).
  • Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

    Wine   Vineyards   Drink  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]
  • If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

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

    Wine   Mind   Body  
  • 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)

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

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

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

    Food   Wine   Drunk  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社
  • Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

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

    Stupid   Drinking   Food  
  • 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).

    Girl   Thinking   Islands  
    Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Reflections”, p.118, Random House
  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

    Mistake   Drinking   Food  
    "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.
  • Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

    Hero   Giving   Jason  
  • Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

    Drinking   Food   Hero  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)
  • 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.

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