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  • Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus -- Rick Riordan
  • Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else. -- Rick Riordan
  • Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. -- John Milton
  • Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. -- Homer
  • Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason -- Rick Riordan
  • Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? -- Ovid
  • What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! -- Karl Kraus
  • Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king. -- Emile Verhaeren
  • The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl). -- Diana Wynne Jones
  • Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
  • For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest. -- Anacreon
  • If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea. -- Victoria Finlay
  • The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night. -- Donald C. Peattie
  • I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating. -- Robert Burns
  • In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius... -- Okakura Kakuz?
  • Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. -- Thomas Fuller
  • (Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus. -- Hilda Doolittle
  • That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus. -- Clive Barker
  • Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said. -- Rick Riordan
  • In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius... -- Okakura Kakuz?
  • If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions. -- Lucretius
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