"Come boy, and pour for me a cup……" — Horace

"Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers."

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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
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. — Homer
Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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