Drink Quote by Plautus

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

— Winston Churchill

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also…

— Harold Macmillan

“It is an interesting, though idle, speculation, what would be the effect on us if all our reformers, revolutionaries, planners, politicians, and life-arrangers in…

— H.D.F. Kitto

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

— Walter Bagehot

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could…

— Donna Tartt

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more…

— Bill Moyers

Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us,…

— Robert Macfarlane

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a…

— William Shakespeare

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

— George Bernard Shaw

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

— Melina Marchetta

The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order .…

— Wallace Thurman

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine…

— Jim Gaffigan