The Quotes canon
Sourced and curated.
Every quote has been curated by hand and carefully authenticated.
Browse all 10,075 quotes or apply filters in different categories to narrow your search.
Browse all 10,075 quotes or apply filters in different categories to narrow your search.
Effects of alcohol6 quotes
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. — Homer · 700 BCFrom wine what sudden friendship springs! — John Gay · 1732It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. — William Shakespeare · 1616It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus · 480 BCWine that maketh glad the heart of man. — Psalm 104:15 · 450 BCBetter sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. — Herman Melville · 1851Alcohol4 quotes
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. — Homer · 700 BCIt provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. — William Shakespeare · 1616It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus · 480 BCWine that maketh glad the heart of man. — Psalm 104:15 · 450 BCWine3 quotes
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. — Homer · 700 BCIt is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus · 480 BCWine that maketh glad the heart of man. — Psalm 104:15 · 450 BCIn vino veritas1 quote
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus · 480 BC