Alcaeus Quotes and Sayings

“Wine is a peep-hole on a man.”
-- Alcaeus

#Wine #Men #Holes

“The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.”
-- Alcaeus

#Chestnuts #Arcadia

“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.”
-- Alcaeus

#Pain #Drinking #Grief

“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.”
-- Alcaeus

#Wall #Opportunity #Men

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

#Wine #Chains #Wit

“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
-- Alcaeus

#Men #Wrath #Lasts

“Plant no tree sooner than the vine.”
-- Alcaeus

#Tree #Vines #Plant

“Fighting men are the city's fortress”
-- Alcaeus

#Fighting #Men #Cities

“Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.”
-- Alcaeus

#Men #Cities #Brave