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 · Odyssey, XIV

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer · Iliad, III

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

Homer · Odyssey, VII

Unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Homer · Iliad, I

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If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder · The Matchmaker (1954), act I

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.

Winston Churchill · To Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941 (The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948))

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“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.”

“Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”

“Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.”

“Unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.”