"Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious,……" — Homer

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• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious… — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
• The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver… — Donald C. Peattie
• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,… — John Dryden
• I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and… — Robert Burns
• Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. — Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early… — Carl Sagan
• In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is… — Unknown Author
• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. — D. H. Lawrence
• In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias,… — Okakura Kakuzo
• Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
• The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god… — Charlaine Harris

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