Aristophanes Wine Quotations

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.