Anacreon Quotes

#1. Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

Samuel Johnson

#2. It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

Samuel Johnson

#3. How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress' health, I'll pledge it. Stay, stay, there's a spider in the cup! No, 'tis but a grape-stone; swallow it, fear nothing, poet. So, so; lift higher.

Thomas Middleton

#4. At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Denis Diderot

#5. Boy with a maiden's glance,
I seek you out, but you hear not,
Unknowing that you are the charioteer
Of my soul.

Anacreon

#6. Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

Anacreon

#7. Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

Anacreon

#8. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.

Ann Voskamp

#9. I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Anacreon

#10. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

C.S. Lewis

#11. 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

#12. How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

Anacreon

#13. War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Anacreon

#14. Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

Anacreon

#15. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#16. Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#17. What is precious isn't the thing, but the feelings behind it.

Ayuko Hatta

#18. The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

Anacreon

#19. And last of all comes death.

Anacreon

#20. To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

Anacreon

#21. Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Anacreon

#22. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.

Anacreon

#23. But none of that is possible," he continued, "if my heart is at war. A heart at war needs enemies to justify its warring. It needs enemies and mistreatment more than it wants peace.

The Arbinger Institute

#24. People should take every opportunity they can to save money because it really adds up, and the best way I know to do that is to make your savings automatic.

David Bach

#25. My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

Anacreon

#26. He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.

Anacreon