Quotes from Alcaeus

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

Wine, dear boy, and truth.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Let us run into a safe harbor.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.