Alcaeus Quotes
- To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
- Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
- Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their…
- One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
- Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
- Plant no tree sooner than the vine.
- Fighting men are the city's fortress