Drunkenness Quote by Horace Download Open image “Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drunkenness Hardship Poverty War Wine
Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world. — Mike D Copy Share Image
“Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and… — Proverbs 31 67 Copy Share Image
“In this way all violent bonds and orders are cancelled as if the freedom of the primal world had been restored with one blow. Man, too, is made open and true by this freedom. Wine, as Plutarch says so nicely, frees the soul of subservience, fear, and insincerity; it teaches men how to be truthful and candid with one another.… — Walter Friedrich Otto Copy Share
“Wine has been present in history since the beginning of mankind, and through our moments of weakness and strength, bringing us closer to the… — Miro Popic Copy Share Image
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?] — Horace Copy Share Image
“For wine is the color of blood and the texture of tears, and you can drink it to warm your belly and piss it… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image