Cunning Quote by Plautus

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

— Plautus

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

— Plautus

“Wine is the nectar of the Gods, the spirit of the Earth, and the Devil the day after the night before.”

— Dr Steven Bottomley

“To defeat evil, I must become a greater evil”

— Lelouch Vi Britannia

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

— St. Jerome

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

— Horace

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a…

— Plato

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . .…

— Francois Fenelon

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

— Plautus

“Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their…

— Paulo Coelho

“In vino veritas -- In wine there is truth.”

— Kim Gruenenfelder

“For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly…

— Oscar Wilde