Bacchus Quote by John Dryden

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…

— John Dryden

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

— John Dryden

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

— John Dryden

Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees…

— Horace

“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ,…

— Justin Martyr

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

— D. H. Lawrence

“Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus.…

— Rick Riordan

(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.

— Hilda Doolittle

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,…

— Anacreon

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its…

— Lucretius

Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.…

— Homer